SAP Intelligent Spend Management
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5 Reasons Why the Quality of Your Statistical Forecasts Can Deteriorate
Learn why the quality of your statistical forecasts can deteriorate and ways to prevent the deterioration from occurring again. Key Concept Historical data is used in statistical forecasting to identify patterns, trends, and seasonality. Those factors are then used to effectively predict future demand. This can be achieved by using the appropriate forecast methods or...…
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Continuous Controls Monitoring: A Cost-Effective Way to Ensure Compliance
Continuous controls monitoring (CCM) can help reduce compliance costs, strengthen the control environment, and reduce the risk of unintentional errors and fraud. Learn how using CCM in your GRC activities can improve business process operations in an efficient, cost-effective manner. Key Concept Automated continuous control monitoring (CCM) can provide a wealth of benefits to a...…
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How to Achieve Speed, Control, and Compliance during an Entity Close Using SAP GRC 10.0
Learn how to use SAP GRC 10.0 to improve control and accountability while automating manual activities and providing centralized access to documents during a closing cycle. Key Concept An improved closing cycle benefits the entire organization. A truly successful closing cycle focuses first on control and accountability as a means to achieve acceleration, thereby empowering...…
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Not Yet Using ABAP Objects? Eight Reasons Why Every ABAP Developer Should Give It a Second Look
SAP introduced ABAP Objects, the object-oriented extension to the ABAP programming language, as part of SAP Basis Release 4.6. While ABAP Objects is optimized especially for business application programming, and makes ABAP development a whole lot easier, many developers still cling to the long-standing procedural approach. This article uses a simple yet practical example to...…
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An Insider’s Guide to Writing Robust, Understandable, Maintainable, State-of-the-Art ABAP Programs: Part 1 — Fundamental Rules and Formal Criteria
Whether you are new to ABAP or have been using it for years, in the end you are probably satisfied if your application code somehow just works. But ABAP is a vibrant, evolving language, with new features and modifications that can significantly improve your programs. The multitude of choices can seem overwhelming, however. This article...…
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An Insider’s Guide to Writing Robust, Understandable, Maintainable, State-of-the-Art ABAP Programs: Part 2 — Best Practices
As application needs have grown and changed, so have programming languages to meet those needs, and ABAP is no different. ABAP has evolved to offer developers new and more efficient ways to accomplish a wide and diverse range of programming tasks. The combination of new features and those preserved for downward compatibility has led to...…
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An Insider’s Guide to Writing Robust, Understandable, Maintainable, State-of-the-Art ABAP Programs: Part 3 — Additional Best Practices and Administrative Issues
With the already large, and ever-increasing, amount of options available for ABAP programming, there has long been a need for a comprehensive guide to help navigate through the maze of possibilities and pitfalls. While many guidelines on the use of ABAP already exist both inside and outside of SAP, most tend to focus on specific...…
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Increase Productivity by Enabling Integrated Batch Management with Suppliers using SAP SNC
Manually creating customer batch numbers during the inbound delivery process is a major source of productivity loss. Learn about an enhancement to the SAP ERP system that increases end user productivity through automatic generation of customer batch numbers and characteristic assignment. In addition to increased productivity and faster processing time, the data quality also improves,...…
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Configure SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for SAP NetWeaver to Optimize System Performance
Read about the underlying architecture for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.0, version for SAP NetWeaver. Learn how to set up the connectivity between the different SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation clients and servers, and how to change different ABAP and .NET settings to optimize system performance. Key Concept The term application has several meanings...…
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Business Content — SAP HANA Style
The concept of business content in SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) does not exactly exist in the SAP HANA world. Instead, SAP provides Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) for SAP HANA. This option provides content and consulting services to enact a quicker implementation. Although it is possible to access the models used in the Operational Reporting...…
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