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A Sample Business Process Hierarchy

For those of you who have heard about Business Process Hierarchies (BPH) but never quite knew what they were supposed to look like, here is a great example from D. Russell Sloan, excerpted from his article “How SAP Solution Manager Can Lead Your Company to Business Process Excellence.” The full article originally appeared in Solution…

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Effortless master data maintenance of your SAP G/L Accounts

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting A very neat way of maintaining G/L account master data is by using the “Hierarchy Display” functionality. This enables you to see all the existing accounts and easily decide which new number to insert or which similar account can be copied. This view has the feel of one of SAP’s “Enjoy”…

Analyzing the Automatic Account Assignment of your SAP General Ledger Accounts

Paul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting Ever wondered how you can easily find out where G/L accounts are assigned in the system? The assignment of accounts is made in several tables depending on which module the table represents, so there has never been an easy way to find out where an account has been assigned without going…

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7 Tips for Conducting User Access Reviews (UARs)

Tip Doctor, Insider Learning Network. Whether you’re charged with protecting employee data, securing financial information, or safeguarding customer data, taking steps to regularly review the users who have access to this data is key. The following tip is from “Lessons for conducting user access reviews of your SAP system” given by James Roeske at Savera…

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Control the Registration of External Programs in the Gateway

Tip Doctor, Insider Learning Network. This tip was taken from “5 Tips for Securing Communication Between SAP Systems and External Programs” by Kehinde Eseyin, which was posted to the GRC Expert knowledgebase in July 2010. You can protect external programs from registration in the gateway by appropriately configuring the reginfo file. The reginfo file is…

Ticket monitoring and reporting with SAP Solution Manager

Tip Doctor, Insider Learning Network. This tip is excerpted from “Establish a Production Support Framework Using SAP Solution Manager,” by Allison Flexer, Vice President, Senior Change Manager.  It was published in Solution Manager Expert in September 2010 (Volume 3, Update 8). Reporting capabilities in SAP Solution Manager support the monitoring of tickets and issue response.…

How you can monitor your end users’ SAP experience

The experience that end users have with the SAP system can be a major issue for SAP customers. Companies spend good money implementing a business application that can do so much — but if end users have enough trouble using the system, the investment can go sour. This can result from end users trying to…

Tips for configuring and administering payroll claims

Tip Doctor, Insider Learning Network. This HR tip comes courtesy of Kathy Morris of Symphony Consulting Group, who spoke at our recent HR 2011 event. What Is a Payroll Claim? A claim is a dollar amount that an employee owes an employer due to an overpayment Claims result from net pay less than zero Claims…

6 pitfalls to avoid when configuring costing variants with SAP product cost planning functionality

This tip is taken from the session “Guidelines for Configuring Costing Variant Functionality to More Accurately Plan Costs for Configurable Products”  presented by Johannes Le Roux, Vice President/Partner, Vortex Software Consulting, at the Financials 2010 conference in Orlando. This tip highlights key steps and pitfalls to avoid when configuring costing variant functionality in the SAP controlling module. 1.…

Data Owner Responsibilities and Characteristics

Authored by Vinod Reddy, Data Migration and SAP MM Techno Functional Consultant, Utopia, Inc.   Every enterprise will definitely have the objective to improve efficiency and effectiveness in managing data. Efficiency will result in minimizing the cost of administering data and effectiveness will result in maximizing the data quality. From my perspective, a data owner should…