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. Discover Hidden Parameter IDs to Simplify Your FI Settings

    Many users set default values for their FI transactions using transaction FB00 – Accounting Editing Options. However, not all settings for FI/CO transactions are available here. In this article, I’ll show you other ways to find and set default values for parameters. I’ll also introduce you to some “hidden” parameters. Many users set default values…...…
  2. Performance Tuning Strategies to Optimize Your SAP Data Services Environment

    Step beyond traditional database tuning concepts, such as indexing and partitioning, and get expert tips to move toward a parallel approach for code design and job construction. Examine parallel execution within SAP Data Services to see how it distributes operations and uses the strengths across your system. Get expert advice on leveraging the pushdown capabilities…...…
  3. Web Channel Experience Management – The New Way to Do E-Commerce

    SAP Web Channel Experience Management allows businesses to turn the Internet into a sales and interaction channel. It does this by providing a common platform that supports multichannel self-service interactions across e-commerce, e-marketing, and e-service. This new SAP offering should eventually replace the older SAP ERP Central Component and CRM Internet Sales solutions. Key Concept…...…
  4. Automate Your SoD Review with SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 5.3

    The Segregation of Duties (SoD) Review feature in SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 5.3 allows for an automated and decentralized SoD review by business managers or risk owners. The SoD Review takes the SoD violations detected during a batch risk analysis and organizes their resolution in a request-based approval workflow. Reviewers can assign mitigation controls for…...…
  5. Automate Your SoD Review with SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 5.3: Five Configuration Steps

    The Segregation of Duties (SoD) Review feature in SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 5.3 allows for an automated and decentralized SoD review by business managers or risk owners. The SoD Review takes the SoD violations detected during a batch risk analysis and organizes their resolution in a request-based approval workflow. Reviewers can assign mitigation controls for…...…
  6. 18 Techniques for Locating the Underlying Data of a Screen Field

    SAP’s three-tiered architecture is the backbone of an R/3 infrastructure. It’s what makes an R/3 system flexible, reliable, and open, all at the same time. It’s also what makes locating underlying data, at times, so inherently difficult. For example, when you need several fields from a transaction for a report or an enhancement, you will…...…
  7. Help Your Profit Analysts Find Cause-and-Effect Relationships with Three CO-PA Data Fine-Tuning Options

    Three settings in a customization piece called the Sales and Distribution (SD) Pricing Procedure will give you greater ability to fine-tune profit-related data that is sent from SD to CO-PA. The article includes a walk-through exercise to help you learn the technique. Out of the many options available in SAP R/3 for influencing when and…...…
  8. Split and Speed Up Your CO-PA Reports Using the Report/Report Interface

    Has your PA report performance slowed down lately? The size of your database might be to blame. The report/report interface provides a way to speed things up by reducing the amount of report data it has to summarize. You often hear business users complain, “Why does this PA report take so long? It used to…...…
  9. Plan and Monitor Your Sales Campaigns in the CO-PA Ledger

    Planning, tracking, and evaluating a discount program or any promotional activity is essential in order to gauge its success. These tasks can be accomplished using the SD module in concert with the CO-PA ledger in much the same way that the two work together to book orders and billings. While the SD module together with…...…
  10. SAP Controls Programming Essentials – What Every ABAP Developer Now Needs to Know

    Controls technology provides an efficient way to build interactive and user-friendly interfaces. Trees, pictures, and editors are all part of the SAP GUI, waiting to be leveraged in your next application. So what do you need to know to take advantage of controls programming, and what’s the best way to get started? This article offers…...…