Articles

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.

500 results

  1. Nine Tips for Dealing with Zero Decimal Place Currencies

    The U.S. dollar, like many of the world’s currencies including the euro, uses two decimal places, which – not surprisingly – is the default setting for R/3. When you roll out your SAP functionality across geographies, however, you may run in trouble coping with currencies with other decimal-place demands. The author provides tips to help…...…
  2. Account for Time Zone Differences So That They Do Not Affect Your Global Close

    When a global company has a period-end close, a great deal of coordination needs to occur among the independent locations to make sure that tight deadlines are met. The author provides eight tips to prevent misunderstandings that can occur because of timing differences when you have offices in more than one time zone. When a…...…
  3. Use Reconciliation Account Determination with a Special G/L Indicator for More Flexible Invoicing

    The author demonstrates how to optimize reconciliation account determination. He introduces the fundamentals of reconciliation account determination, special G/L indicator configuration, and manual adjustments. With examples, he shows how to use reconciliation account determination with a special G/L indicator in the FI-A/R module. Using reconciliation account determination, you can post customer invoices to a reconciliation…...…
  4. Hard-to-Get Inventory Analyses Become Easy Via the Material Ledger 4.6

    The latest version of the Material Ledger is a significant upgrade and includes two important inventory reporting options: compilation of actual bill of materials and automatic tracking of multilevel variances from standards. I have known about the Material Ledger since R/3 release 3.0B. But perhaps like a lot of field consultants, did not get too…...…
  5. Understand RCA Concepts to More Easily Evaluate Your Ever-Expanding CO Module Functionality Options

    SAPexperts’FinancialsSince 1998, SAP has supported more than one costing philosophy in the R/3 CO module. This means that the CO user/designer has more and potentially confusing options when making scope decisions. The author focuses on one of those costing philosophies–Resource Consumption Accounting–and compares it to the better understood full absorption accounting so that you better…...…
  6. Speed Up Your Report Performance by Knowing Where Your FI Data Is Hiding

    Often at go-live, reports are written that appear to work very well, and then a year or two later, they run very slowly. The reason might be a misunderstanding about the kinds of tables that FI debit and credit data is hiding in. This article explains why it’s important to your report’s performance for you…...…
  7. What’s an “Assignment Number,” and How a Misunderstanding Can Give Your End Users an Unfriendly Surprise

    A default sort allows you to sort accounts by different criteria, such as expense accounts by cost center and assets accounts by asset number. Its role is sometimes confusing, however, and therefore it is underused in the FI module. The author clears up two sources of confusion: terminology and the possibility the system presents of…...…
  8. Who Changed My Config?

    The author explains how to use the table logging functionality to answer the question, Who changed my config? Table logging is a functionality that enables recording of all insertions, deletions, and changes in configuration tables. He says it has proven invaluable in preventing configuration errors from impacting the production systems at his projects. Have you…...…
  9. Provide Report Writer and BW Reports Without Selection Screens

    Manager Self-Service (MSS) provides your end users with new reporting functionalities – reports without selection screens, a new set of tables that stores their selection criteria per user, and the ability to look at more than one report on a screen. This article is the third in a series on MSS, which is standard Business…...…
  10. Which A/R Underpayment Option Should You Use: Partial Payment or Residual Item?

    When a customer makes a payment for an invoice that is a great deal less than the full invoice value, the A/R user has several choices of how to process the underpayment. Both users and consultants are often confused about the difference between two of those options – partial payment and residual item – because…...…