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The following articles are written by SAP experts, contributors from the SAPinsider Community, and SAPinsider’s skilled team of editors and research analysts. From technical guides to thought leadership pieces, these articles contain essential insights to help SAP customers solve day-to-day challenges, understand what types of decisions organizations need to be making, and receive lessons learned from other SAP customer experiences.
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What You Need to Know About Order-Related Inter-Company Billing
Examine how order-related inter-company billing differs from other types of billing. Understand the special steps required to configure and process order-related inter-company billing in SAP ERP. Key Concept Most billing in SAP is delivery related, but you need to use order- related billing for some business processes, such as services. Also, you use inter-company billing,...…
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Manage Supply Chain Risks with SAP Supply Chain Performance Management 2.0
SAP Supply Chain Performance Management 2.0 offers extended performance and risk indicators in a number of key areas, including the Supply Chain Council’s Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model. Learn how to effectively map these key risk indicators to an enterprise risk management program using SAP Supply Chain Performance Management 2.0 and SAP Risk Management...…
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5 Criteria for Migrating an Application into the Cloud
Examine criteria for migrating your applications to the cloud. They can help you decide whether to proceed. You can use the criteria as a guideline or as a part of the pre-migration assessment. Key Concept SAP Business ByDesign is an on-demand ERP solution for small and medium-sized enterprises. This Software as a Service (SaaS) contains...…
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Implement Proven Testing Practices and Techniques for Large-Scale Global SAP Rollouts
Learn how to avoid mistakes that plague many SAP implementations associated with flawed testing approaches. Take away valuable information that you can use as a baseline for either enhancing the status quo at your respective projects or for avoiding potential mistakes before testing is initiated. Key Concept Initial implementations and major system upgrades usually include...…
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Use Stakeholder Maps to Secure Support for Your SAP Projects and Ensure Successful Implementations
There are two givens you can always count on when you implement an SAP system. First, you will be dealing with a multitude of stakeholders, each with different expectations, needs, and behaviors. Second, the more stakeholders you encounter, the more you’ll find yourself mired in internal politics that can manifest themselves in a variety of...…
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What Is Change Management and Why Is It Important? An Overview of Change Management and the Seven Precepts That Can Help Every SAP Project
Change management is the process of matching the expectations of those affected by an implementation project to the results they are receiving — it helps people decide whether a given project is good for them. This is the first of two articles that help you successfully manage the change that comes with all projects. This...…
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Performing Change Management Tasks During Each Phase of an SAP Project to Achieve the Greatest ROI and Ensure Successful Implementations
Change management isn’t just about communication and training — at its core, it is the strategy and tactics involved in convincing end users that an SAP implementation is an extension of their ability to do their jobs more easily and effectively. This is the second of two articles on how to perform successful change management....…
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How to Change Infotype Data Using Standard Classes and Methods
SAP provides a number of standard classes (and methods) for updating records in infotypes. Learn the detailed steps required to create new records in an infotype, delete a record, and change fields of an already-existing infotype record. Key Concept Casting allows you to carry out assignments between two reference variables. Once the assignment is successful,...…
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An Overview of Simplified Modeling with SAP BW on SAP HANA (Part 1)
Learn how the move to SAP BW running on SAP HANA makes SAP BW both faster to use and simpler to deploy. Key Concept InfoProviders are the objects against which BEx Queries are written. BEx Queries, in turn, feed data to reporting tools. In the beginning, InfoCubes were the lone InfoProviders, but over time, more...…
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SAP Time Management: Understanding and Using Standard Time Types in Time Evaluation for Reporting and Simplifying Custom Content
Learn about standard SAP Time Management time types and how to use them in reporting—and when creating your own schema rules—to leverage the available standard time type data that is calculated by SAP-delivered schema rules. Learn how to use delivered time types to efficiently create rules, and to find and use standard but underutilized reporting...…
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