SAP Messaging

Ask the FI/CO Expert: “Do I Need to Create Rules Concerning Address Printing on Accounts Payable Checks?”

This month’s FI/CO expert answers a question from Paula Gennari, an Accounts Payable manager for a $100 million/year plastics manufacturer in Massachusetts. Her question concerns annoying mystery her department has experienced with their recently installed SAP R/3 system in regard to check printing-the Automatic Payment Program for their non-U.S. vendors does not print the name...…

5 Steps to Optimize Your mySAP CRM Implementation with SAP Best Practices

Find out about the five steps involved with evaluating and implementing SAP Best Practices via a sample scenario involving Activity Management. SAP Best Practices are preconfigured, tested, and documented scenarios you can use during the implementation process. Key Concept SAP Best Practices are preconfigured business scenarios to simplify and speed up your implementation project. The...…

SAP NetWeaver Portal: Initiate and Track the Planning Process with Collaboration Rooms

The Business Unit Analyst role shipped in mySAP ERP 2005 replaces the spreadsheets and distribution lists that used to organize the process of gathering and monitoring the submission of budget data with a collaboration room. Learn how it is designed specifically to select the managers who need to plan, send out workflow tasks to these...…

Set Up Preference Processing in SAP ECC and SAP Global Trade Services

See how to set up and perform preference processing within your global customs practices through your supply chain in both SAP ERP Central Component and SAP GRC Global Trade Services. Preference processing allows you to capture and determine the duty preference, drawback, and allowance based on the country of origin and tariff for the product....…

Add Custom Text to Your Applicant Correspondence

You can personalize letters you send out to applicants. The author explains how to do this using the example of adding the initials of the person writing the letter. Key Concept The functionality described here exists within the R/3 HR Recruitment module since release 3.0D. Recruitment will be part of the mySAP ERP core. It...…

A Step-by-Step Tutorial for Developing Mobile Applications on SAP HANA

BISAP Professional JournalIn this step-by-step tutorial for developing an Android-based mobile application on SAP HANA, learn how to expose data from SAP HANA as an OData service, how to consume data from the OData service on a Web application, and how to create an Android mobile application by using the PhoneGap hybrid Web container. This...…

• SAP ERP

Optimize Inventory Using Product Interchangeability in SAP APO SNP

Learn how to carry out product interchangeability in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) Supply Network Planning (SNP) when one product needs to be replaced with another from a particular date or when you need to plan a set of interchangeable products with the same technical properties. Key Concept There are two major interchangeability...…

• SAP APO

Manage Lifecycle Planning in SAP APO

Learn how lifecycle planning can be configured in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) to forecast a new product, manage the introduction of the new product (phase-in), phase out the old product being replaced, and integrate it with forecasting techniques. Follow a step-by-step procedure to configure and run the associated master data objects, run...…

• SAP Central Finance

Decoding the Cost Object Mapping Framework in SAP Central Finance

Learn about the concept, purpose, configuration, and execution of the cost object mapping framework in SAP Central Finance. Key Concept SAP Central Finance in SAP S/4HANA offers a new configuration for the cost object mapping framework, which is mainly used for short-living cost objects such as an internal order, a production order, or a service...…