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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Troubleshooting Tips for Your TREX Implementation in Internet Sales
Learn how you can install Text Retrieval and Information Extraction for Internet Sales to augment your E-Commerce functionality. Although the Basis team usually works with the CRM team on the implementation, the roles are often not clearly defined, which can lead to redundancy. These tips help the CRM team avoid this overlap by explaining how...…
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Speed Your Month-End Close with Automated Reserve Setup, Utilization Tracking, and Over/Underrun Calculation
Use results analysis to automatically calculate reserves for installation and warranty based on the costs planned for the relevant work breakdown structure elements. Key Concept Results analysis (RA) is a standard function in the cost object controlling module or SAP ERP Central Component. RA is used for many different objects, including internal orders, work breakdown...…
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Eliminate Duplicated Inter-Company AR/AP Postings in Cross-Company Sales Orders
Learn how to prevent duplicate inter-company AR/AP postings when working with cross-company free-of-charge sales orders. Key Concept Inter-company journal postings are common when processing a cross-company business scenario. The SAP system automatically generates inter-company journal postings for you if you post a credit in one company and a debit in another company In a typical...…
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Time Recording in the Service Desk: Capturing Support Efforts in Incident Management
ManagerImplement SAP Solution Manager’s Time Recording feature to capture, track, and report on the effort your support teams invest in processing incidents. Learn the fundamental configuration activities to integrate Time Recording into both new and live Service Desk solutions. Key Concept With Support Package 21 of SAP Solution Manager 7.0 came a new functionality for...…
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How to Use Standard Configuration to Automate Declining Negotiated Leave Balances
Many organizations allow their HR department to provide additional leave entitlement for potential new hires as part of a negotiated employment contract. In most cases, the additional leave entitlement is reduced as the employee’s seniority increases and, once the combined level is reached, is dropped altogether. This may also occur during an acquisition if the...…
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Best Practices to Increase the Effectiveness of Your LSMW Objects
Learn how you can implement best practices for developing Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) objects that are easy to use and support. Gain knowledge of how to identify the best situations for using LSMW over other data load methods. Key Concept The Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) is a module delivered by SAP that is...…
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Avoid Audit Problems by Building Controls as Part of Your Implementation Life Cycle
/GRCTo have an efficient and effective control design process, certain risk and control activities need to occur during the implementation process. These activities reduce the potential for audit issues and minimize future rework. By following this strategy you significantly increase the likelihood of having a successful implementation and a pain-free audit. Key Concept Controls are...…
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Overcome a Top Auditing Issue with Superuser Privilege Management
Procedures for granting emergency access to SAP systems often raise concerns during a system audit. SAP BusinessObjects Access Control can provide an effective solution. The Superuser Privilege Management (SPM) capability manages access to emergency users in a secure and auditable manner. See how it works in the SAP back end and the different reporting measures...…
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Select and Transfer a Time Slice of Data for Testing with SAP Test Data Migration Server 3.0
The new SAP Test Data Migration Server (TDMS) is an automated solution for creating test systems that can be a real alternative to full-system copies. It can pare down the size of your test system in a variety of ways, the most popular of which is to copy only a time slice of your production...…
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Manage Test Scripts with Solution Manager
Discover how to store your test scripts in Solution Manager, which saves time and ensures consistency. Key Concept extended Computer Aided Test Tool (eCATT) functionality replaces the old SAP Computer Aided Test Tool (CATT) functionality. eCATT has many more advantages than CATT, such as a user-friendly interface and the ability to create a script that...…
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