User-Driven + Product-Driven Growth = Business Success

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  1. Integrate Adobe Flex into Your Web Application Development Environment to Increase Web Services Consumption

    Learn how Adobe Flex fits into the SAP development environment and how to use this partnership to create robust applications. Learn how to drill down into a Web service to explore its details in order to apply suitable Web service consumption and development strategies for your application. Key Concept An enterprise service is typically a...…

  2. How Rich Products Delivers to Customers Faster

    This article outlines how Rich Products is creating new business opportunities and enhancing its customer interaction experience by redesigning its product development processes. It examines the company’s overall strategy for the redesign, including its proof-of-concept planning, the benefits it aims to achieve, and the efforts involved in securing end-user engagement and acceptance. Membership Required You…

  3. A Guide to SAP’s Development Environments for SAP HANA and the Cloud

    Read this in-depth column for a comprehensive understanding of SAP’s current main tooling environments for supporting SAP HANA and the cloud, including both desktop- and browser-based environments. You will gain a set of guidelines for determining when to use which platforms and what tools are best suited to your particular development project needs. Membership Required…

  4. Meeting Demand with a Constrained Supply Using Product Allocation in SAP APO Global ATP

    Learn the process flow of how product allocation can be used in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) Global available-to-promise (Global ATP) to meet customer requirements by managing the supply of scarce products. The system can perform availability checks in conjunction with product allocation checks. Key Concept Availability checks, also known as available-to-promise (ATP),...…

  5. How a Co-Product Differs from a By-Product

    Understand the difference between a co-product and a by-product in production processes. Walk through both options and see the pros and cons of each. Key Concept In addition to the main material made during the production process of semi-finished or finished goods, additional products often are produced. These additionally produced materials can either be used...…

  6. Leverage SAP Product Costing for Joint Production

    Joint production is a production process of two or more finished products. In this example, the production cost is shared between the finished manufactured products. Learn the basics of apportionment of the standard cost between the primary finished product and other co-products. Discover the significance of a preliminary settlement transaction for the variance calculation of...…

  7. Best Practices for Planning, Testing, and Deploying Changes in a Mature SAP ERP Landscape

    /Project ManagementMike Moore, an SAP technical solution architect, explains the benefits of using an N+1 landscape model when making project and production support changes, including avoiding long production support freezes. He shows how to implement it, drawing on lessons learned during deployment. Key Concept The SAP N+1 landscape provides a solution for lowering the risk...…

  8. Repetitive Cost Accounting in a Production and Process Order Environment

    Learn how to configure and use product cost collectors (repetitive) to capture and control production and process order costs. Key Concept A hybrid order type for production moves the cost object from the production or process order to a product cost collector. This enables the use of orders for control of production and the aggregate...…

  9. Configure Capable-to-Promise for Both External and Internal Demands

    Learn how to configure Capable-to-Promise in SAP Global Available-to-Promise (GATP) in a manufacturing environment for both external as well as internal demands. Understand the various configuration aspects of both GATP and Production Planning (PP) /Detailed Scheduling (DS). Key Concept Production can be directly triggered through a Capable-to-Promise check within the SAP Global Available-to-Promise (GATP) module...…

  10. LEGO Builds a Broader Product Line with SAP PLM

    SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),…