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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.

Facilitate the Data Exchange Between Headquarters and Subsidiaries with SAP In-House Cash

Become familiar with the most important business configuration settings of SAP In-House Cash. Get a step-by-step introduction to how to prepare both the subsidiary systems and the in-house cash center for the key business processes of SAP In-House Cash. Understand the setup of the principal master data for SAP In-House Cash. Key Concept SAP In-House…...…
Simplify Your Month End by Using the Factory Calendar for Batch Job Scheduling

Examine how a factory calendar aligned to the fiscal calendar can simplify month-end batch job scheduling, especially if you are not using Schedule Manager and Closing Cockpit. Understand how to create a factory calendar that matches your fiscal calendar and how to create a batch job that follows this calendar. Key Concept Every company is…...…
Effectively Manage the Talent Life Cycle with SAP HCM

See how to support these key talent management processes using SAP HCM: recruitment, development, training, rewarding, and retaining. Key Concept The talent is every employee in an organization: the people who invent, create, design, manufacture, service, support, and otherwise perform tasks required to meet company goals and drive success in the market in which they…...…
How SAP FSCM Complements Standard FI-AR to Reduce Days Sales Outstanding

Standard accounts receivable (AR) functionality is split among many transactions, taking extra time from a busy AR team. By performing the whole customer contact process using a single transaction within SAP Financial Supply Chain Management (SAP FSCM), you can reduce the time spent by the AR team, ensuring more customers are contacted. The business can…...…
What to Consider When Building Your SAP E-Commerce Implementation Team

Examine the technical aspects of planning and executing an SAP E-Commerce project, including the skills required and the typical tasks involved with such a project. Key Concept The multiple channels required to satisfy customer preferences make mySAP CRM applications more complex to deploy from a technical standpoint. Understanding the different technologies to support each channel…...…
How to Read Infotype Data Using Standard Classes and Methods

Fetching data based on certain selection criteria remains an important requirement for SAP developers. Learn about the various scenarios that can arise and the coding for accessing the employee data from SAP standard and custom infotypes. Key Concept In ABAP objects, global interfaces are defined using transaction code SE24. Standard classes can implement these interfaces…....…
Message Routing in SAP HANA Cloud Integration

See how to use SAP HANA Cloud Integration (SAP HCI) to model different message-handling execution paths. You apply the content-based router step in your integration flow and define conditions for each execution path using XML and non-XML expressions. Key Concept Content-Based Router is the name for one of the Enterprise Integration Patterns first introduced by…...…
Comparing SAP BW on HANA vs. Native Reporting with SAP HANA: Q&A on Design, Optimization, and Troubleshooting

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What are the differences when running SAP BW on SAP HANA vs. HANA native reporting? How does SAP HANA change your reporting solution architecture? SAP BW and HANA expert Dmitry Shustov of Xoomworks answered readers’ questions on evaluating and optimizing BW for SAP HANA and moving to native HANA reporting. Questions from readers included: …...…
SAPinsider Showcases Women in SAP Tech

Global statistics show that even though some progress is being made, women are still underrepresented, underpaid, and often discriminated against in the tech industry. To address this disparity, SAPinsider decided to dedicate this magazine edition to sharing the amazing work women are currently doing across the SAPinsider Community. Throughout its more than 20 years of…
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Make 2023 The Year of Building Supply Chain Data Foundation

Reading time: 7 mins

As we head into the new year, you have already read many articles predicting supply chain trends for 2023. I am not a big fan of predicting trends when it comes to supply chains. My primary reasoning is that these trends are not a surprise for seasoned supply chain leaders and executives. These leaders and…