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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  1. Get the Most Out of SAPSprint for Server-Based Printing in Microsoft Windows

    Published: 22/April/2009

    Reading time: 19 mins

    SAPSprint is the latest service for server-based printing on Windows. Learn how to install and configure this service with its default options. Drill down into the technical implementation to learn how to manage print requests, restart print processes, configure front-end printing, and include barcodes. Key Concept Processing in SAPSprint means generating print data via the...…

  2. Configuration Validation Reporting Made Easy

    Published: 01/July/2016

    Reading time: 24 mins

    Configuration validation is a reporting utility that helps you know the technical configuration of any SAP system either in flat-list values or in a comparison. The comparison of a group of systems against a target reference system or against predefined configuration values is the crux of the configuration validation utility. Key Concept Configuration validation is...…

  3. Plan Service or Maintenance Order Operations Using Configurable Task Lists

    Published: 17/July/2013

    Reading time: 22 mins

    Learn how to use a configurable general maintenance task list to perform sophisticated planning that can streamline operations. This solution enables companies with customer service or internal plant maintenance operations to minimize their master data and facilitate their administrative tasks. Key Concept Service or maintenance planners in customer service or plant maintenance operations often face...…

  4. Selective Data Transition vs. Full Migration: Choosing the Right Approach for SAP S/4HANA

    Reading time: 17 mins

    Migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA involves choosing between Selective Data Transition, which allows for flexible and tailored data migration, and Full Migration, which fully integrates existing systems but requires significant reconfiguration, with specific strategies and thorough preparations critical for successful execution.

  5. Technical Considerations for Executing an SAPUI5 Project

    Published: 05/April/2016

    Reading time: 22 mins

    Follow these best practices and tips outlined by Ameya Pimpalgaonkar if you are planning to execute an SAPUI5 project. See how an SAPUI5 project differs from a traditional project and why the design process is essential if you want to avoid technical errors. Key Concept It is essential that all SAPUI5 projects begin with a...…

  6. A Guide to SAP’s Credit Risk Analyzer

    Published: 18/January/2016

    Reading time: 45 mins

    SAP’s Credit Risk Analyzer sub-module focuses on measuring, analyzing, and controlling counterparty risks. Learn how to use and configure it. Key Concept The Credit Risk Analyzer includes a risk control through limits and flexible limit management with online monitoring and reporting. This functionality allows corporate executives to set limit controls in their SAP systems, monitor...…

  7. Configure SAPSprint for Secure Server-Based Printing on Windows

    Published: 17/June/2009

    Reading time: 146 mins

    You can have as wide and varied a range of printing needs as you have business needs. Learn about the available SAPSprint options — what they are and what they do — so you can help your organization meet its specific printing needs. Key Concept Secure Network Communications (SNC) integrates an external security product with...…

  8. A Step-by-Step Process for Customizing and Configuring the Personal Profile in Employee Self-Service in Enhancement Package 6

    Published: 16/June/2014

    Reading time: 15 mins

    Learn how to configure and customize the Employee Self-Service (ESS) application in both the SAP Enterprise Portal and NetWeaver Business Client in enhancement package 6 using the Floorplan Manager concept in Web Dynpro ABAP. Learn how to customize overview screens, and detailed screens and forms in the Personal Profile section of ESS. Get tips for...…

  9. “What’s in My Transport?!”

    Published: 15/June/2004

    Reading time: 11 mins

    During configuration, a transport (or change request) can pick up more changes than the configurator intended, thus causing system errors. The author explains the potential for mistakes and how to avoid them when using automatic change requests in the Change and Transport System (CTS). Not too long ago, an experienced R/3 configurator came running over...…

  10. Part 2: Plan For and Implement SAP Learning Solution

    Published: 15/November/2006

    Reading time: 32 mins

    SAP Learning Solution (LSO) configuration builds on SAP Training Management configuration. Follow these expert tips that relate to Training Management and LSO. Understand key configuration decisions before moving into your blueprint phase to configure LSO quickly and painlessly. Key Concept Your blueprint documentation should describe your key business processes and mirror the structure of the...…