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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How Add-On 3.0 Integrates SAP ERP HCM and SuccessFactors HCM Curricula
Learn the steps for integrating the SAP ERP HCM Qualifications with SuccessFactors LMS curriculum as part of the Integration Add-On 3.0 for SuccessFactors HCM Suite and SAP ERP HCM Support Package 00 using SAP HANA Cloud Integration as middleware. Once employees’ curricula statuses are synchronized between SAP ERP HCM and SuccessFactors Learning Management System (LMS),...…
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Timer-Based Message Transfer Using SAP HANA Cloud Integration
Volker Stiehl explains how to use SAP HANA Cloud Integration (SAP HCI) for modeling the time-based activation of integration flows. Also see how to call an external web service by means of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) adapter. The use of namespace mappings clarifies how to work with several web services in one integration...…
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Lean Implementation of the Material Ledger with Multiple Valuations in a Production Environment
Learn how to design the standard SAP system to implement the Material Ledger with multiple valuations in the production environment using the Special Purpose Ledger. The main reason to use the Special Purpose Ledger is to avoid changes required in existing currency settings and impacts on other applications that are already in use. The Special...…
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Developing Adapters for SAP HANA Cloud Integration Using the Adapter Development Kit
See how to use the Adapter Development Kit (ADK) to develop new adapters for SAP HANA Cloud Integration (SAP HCI). You apply the ADK to build a connector to content management systems adhering to the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard. You can then use the new adapter to move documents from and to different...…
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Using SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Enhancements: What You Need to Know About the Latest Release
Released in 2016, SAP Solution Manager 7.2 introduced a new process management architecture providing one simplified process landscape for the business and IT, along with enhanced functionality such as a new SAPUI5-based user experience, cloud & hybrid solution support, transparent requirements to deploy project management, and SAP Solution Manager 7.2 can run on SAP HANA.…
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Crossing Transport Request Boundaries with ChaRM
ManagerIn this primer on the basics of Change Request Management (ChaRM) and how it can benefit your organization, learn how ChaRM controls changes from their creation to the transport and productive systems. Find out how to manage several change projects in complex landscapes using this tool and how SAP moved change management forward by creating...…
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Automate a Supplemental Savings Plan for Wages Over the Qualified Plan Limit
Learn the configuration of a special benefit plan, wage types, and a rule in payroll that makes contributions to a supplemental savings plan possible even in the middle of a pay period. Key Concept The US Internal Revenue Service prohibits contributions to a qualified savings plan from earnings that exceed the section 415 compensation limit....…
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Configuration Tips for Using Automated Flexible Product Prices with SAP Pricing Scale
Learn how to gain market share by configuring and implementing SAP pricing scale with different automated flexible price strategies and appropriate business scenarios. Key Concept Organizations have requirements to implement automated scalable price models that can enable them to respond competitively to their customers and prospective customers’ purchasing power. SAP has provided some functionalities such...…
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Creating and Modifying a SAPUI5 Custom Control
By Cord Jastram, Software Developer at DXC. SAPUI5 offers a large set of controls ranging from simple ones like the Label to complex controls like the PlanningCalendar control. The available set of SAPUI5 controls covers most use cases for SAPUI5, but sometimes the requirements for a developer go beyond the scope of the existing controls.…
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Demystify the CRM Configuration Behind the Service Desk
ManagerBuild on settings in SAP Solution Manager to roll out a central support system to administer both SAP and non-SAP trouble tickets. Learn effective practices for preparing and designing a comprehensive support system for issue reporting. Key Concept Many SAP users operate multiple issue-tracking tools, allowing SAP Solution Manager’s role in incident management to be...…
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