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Enhance R/3’s Product Allocation Tool by Integrating It with APO’s DP and GATP Modules
SAP R/3 and Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) provide several different ways to manage planning hierarchies for product allocation purposes, each with benefits and drawbacks. The author shows how to optimize product allocation in R/3 and presents examples of how R/3 integrates with APO’s Demand Planning (DP) and Global Available to Promise (GATP). Both SAP...…
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An Integrated Approach to Troubleshooting Your ABAP Programs: Using Standard SAP Investigative Tools for Production Problems
No matter how carefully you test programs before deploying them productively, sooner or later bad performance, unexpected behavior, or even runtime errors will crop up. Fortunately, SAP provides standard tools for identifying such problems. Bug hunting with the wrong tool, however, can be costly — using the ABAP Debugger in the wrong situation can turn...…
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Gain a Real-World Understanding of How Your Applications Will Operate on a New Platform — Porting a J2EE Application to SAP Web Application Server
It is no secret that companies are cost-driven — if there is an opportunity to optimize your efficiency, you have to seize it. SAP Web Application Server (SAP Web AS) 6.30, and now 6.40, incorporate the J2EE 1.3 standard, so you no longer have to maintain separate servers for your J2EE and ABAP applications. But...…
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Get Started Developing, Debugging, and Deploying Custom J2EE Applications Quickly and Easily with SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
Ever more complex business requirements, and the widening array of technologies that address them, are in turn increasing application development time and pushing the limits of development environments. To address this, SAP Web Application Server 6.40 includes SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, an IDE that greatly simplifies Java development and enables you to leverage technologies like...…
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Reduce Development and Maintenance Time Using an Object-Oriented Framework
Changing market demands, bug fixes, and feature requests all conspire to confound software development, deployment, and ongoing maintenance efforts. While isolating application logic from the underlying system infrastructure is a well-established object-oriented design concept for simplifying such efforts, there is no similar model for SAP Java Connector (JCo) server environments. This article shows you how...…
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Ask The Expert: Copy and Move Queries without Transports
Two of the most frequently asked questions about SAP Query involve copying and moving user queries. The author explains how to quickly copy queries across user groups and move queries between clients without the use of transports. Key Concept Dear HR Expert, How do I copy queries across user groups, and how do I move...…
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COBRA Processing Part 1: Recognize Qualified Events and Produce Enrollment Packages
SAP R/3 can help your business manage the COBRA law, which requires companies to offer health insurance to employees who have lost coverage. In the first of a two-part series, the author discusses the rules, terms, and notification process of the COBRA law. In 1985, the United States Congress passed the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation...…
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Conquer Context Problems in HR Security
When the same HR user is in charge of multiple tasks, conflict problems can occur on the subject of how much authorization to grant the user. The author compares the technical differences between general and structural authorization and how to optimize their usage. He also describes SAP’s context-sensitive authorization functionality in R/3 Enterprise Release 4.70....…
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How to Use Gross-Ups in SAP US Payroll
In certain cases, such as for prizes and expatriate pay, a company wants to pay taxes for employees so that they take home the right amount in net pay. Using examples, the author explains the technicalities of the gross-up process, which starts with net pay and works backward to the gross amount. Many companies use...…
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A Guided Tour of the SAP Java Persistence Framework — Achieving Scalable Persistence for Your Java Applications
The ABAP persistence layer has long provided a stable, powerful, and scalable persistence mechanism that guarantees the availability and integrity of stored data for your ABAP applications, supports application portability, and provides features like database abstraction layers and diagnostic tools. For Java applications, SAP Web Application Server 6.30 introduces the Java Persistence Framework, a comprehensive...…
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