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How Wage Type Valuation Bases Turn Payroll Numbers into Money
Within any payroll, there will always be payments input as numbers that then need to be converted into money. The method of achieving this in R/3 is known as the “wage type valuation base.” The author gives some background on valuation bases and shows how each works. He provides two examples of using valuation bases...…
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SAP Compensation Administration Application Supports a Total Compensation Strategy
The Compensation Administration (CA) application in R/3 is designed to link employee performance with company goals. In this first article in a series, the author explains how to prepare for a CA implementation. Using the example of a management incentive plan, she shows how to budget for a compensation/award plan. Over the past decade, the...…
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Use Features to Support Current and Prior Business Rules Simultaneously
A feature is a logical construct used to assign a value to one field by examining the values of other fields. When business rules change, you may need to update your features. However, “effective date” is not one of the fields available for making decisions in most features. The author covers a quick way to...…
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RF-Enable Logistics Transactions for Automated Data Collection in Real Time
When you implement bar-coding and radio-frequency (RF) technology in your warehouse or plant, you must modify a number of commonly used SAP transactions so that they recognize RF devices. The author of this article lists the transactions you will likely have to modify and provide advice for doing so. However, users have been demanding transactions...…
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Warehouse Stock Age Reports Made Easier
Reporting on the age of stock in your warehouse can be troublesome and slow in R/3. SAP’s Business Information Warehouse (BW), however, is better equipped to deal with this load-intensive calculation. This article shows you how to calculate stock age based on first-in, first-out logic using BW. One commonly requested report is to show the...…
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Improve APO Load Performance with Three Advanced Filtering Techniques
ou probably don’t need to use all the data in your APO source system for your BW-generated demand planning reports. Filtering that data so your query uses only what’s relevant will boost performance. Learn about three methods for carrying out this filtering: filtering in the source system, using the InfoPackage selection criteria, and filtering in...…
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Demystify Safety Stock Calculation Methods in PP/DS
Subtle differences in the way SAP APO SNP and the Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) applications calculate safety stock are often a source of confusion. Gain an understanding of these differences and see how you use the SAP safety stock methods in PP/DS. In most cases, the safety stock calculation methods in the SAP...…
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Profit Center Accounting – Track Internal Revenue and Costs Using Transfer Pricing
Profit Center Accounting: Track internal revenue and costs using transfer pricing. I’ve been hearing a lot about this question: “What are the possible ways to record the internal sales for an organization?” Let’s say you are required to track the profitability of a certain product. However, the product is sold as a consumption material to...…
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Enable Paperless Requests with MSS and R/3’s Internal Service Request
Manager Self-Service (MSS) is delivered with Web forms that allow users to request services such as master data change requests from central departments. These HTML forms are built with SAP’s Internal Service Request (ISR) functionality. Manager Self-Service (MSS) is delivered with Web forms that allow users to request services such as master data change requests...…
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Extended Withholding Tax Reporting Offers Two Correction Programs
1099 MISC reporting is one of those processes that never gets the attention it really deserves during implementations or upgrades. The reason is that 1099 MISC reporting is not a main business process, but rather a task that needs to be done once a year in the United States. 1099 MISC reporting is one of...…
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