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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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Persistent Memory and SAP HANA ConfigurationJul 24, 2020 — SAP HANA is the first major database platform to support Intel® Optane™ persistent memory, which gives it the ability to expand beyond the density limitations of traditional memory while benefiting from the non-volatile capabilities of persistent memory. This paper provides an overview of the benefits of combining servers equipped with Intel® Optane™ persistent memory with […]
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Discover the Ease of Using SAP Solution Manager’s Scout IMG Configuration Comparison FunctionalityNov 6, 2017 — See how to use Customizing Scout, which is part of SAP Solution Manager’s Customizing Synchronization suite. This functionality enables you to compare functional IMG configuration between two systems. These systems must be connected in Solution Manager and should be configured with the necessary authorizations. It is useful especially when manual activity is involved in a […]
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Configuration Tips for Using Automated Flexible Product Prices with SAP Pricing ScaleAug 31, 2017 — Learn how to gain market share by configuring and implementing SAP pricing scale with different automated flexible price strategies and appropriate business scenarios. Key Concept Organizations have requirements to implement automated scalable price models that can enable them to respond competitively to their customers and prospective customers’ purchasing power. SAP has provided some functionalities such […]
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Understand the Central Configuration Manager Tool in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 for Better System AdministrationJan 10, 2014 — The Central Configuration Manager (CCM) is a platform management tool that allows SAP BusinessObjects administrators to maintain and control BusinessObjects platform server components. Learn about the features included within the CCM tool in BusinessObjects 4.0 and see how to use CCM to successfully administer a BusinessObjects 4.0 platform. Key Concept The BI 4.0 server is […]
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Define Automated Test Cases and Create Test Configuration with SAP Solution Manager 7.1Jun 6, 2012 — ManagerLearn a step-by-step procedure for creating a systems data container, test configuration, test plan, and test packages in SAP Solution Manager 7.1. See how to assign an existing test data container to test configuration and assign testers to test packages. Key Concept Test configuration is an automated test case of reusable objects in extended Computer […]
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Benefit from the Tight Integration Between SAP NetWeaver BPM and AEX Without ConfigurationApr 5, 2012 — SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration is a solution for modeling, running, and monitoring human-centric processes as well as integration scenarios within one environment. It combines SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management and the Java-only installation option of SAP NetWeaver Process Integration for a reduced total cost of ownership. However, one key question remains unanswered: How can you […]
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