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Understanding and Optimizing Your ALE Data Distribution: Minimizing Data Volume
If you are involved in setting up or maintaining data distribution using SAP’s Application Link Enabling (ALE) technology, you have a role to play in ensuring that the distribution performs well and uses system resources efficiently. This is the second installment of a two-part article series designed to help you do just that. The first...…
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ABAP Program Streamlines Flexible Spending Account Reconciliation
The standard R/3 transaction to track flexible spending accounts is limited, making it difficult to perform the year-end reconciliation process or to track the current fund balance. The author provides an ABAP program that streamlines the process. Many U.S. companies offer so-called “flexible spending account” (FSA) plans that allow employees to pay certain expenses with...…
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How to Create an Automatically Posted Intercompany Sales Journal Entry
The author explains how his company implemented automatic posting of intercompany invoices. The key to the process is learning how three different things in R/3 fit together – an output type, an IDoc, and the EDI method of data transfer. The standards already in the software (Releases 4.0x, 4.5x, and 4.6x) allow purchase orders (POs)...…
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Achieving Platform-Independent Database Access with Open SQL/SQLJ – Embedded SQL for Java in the SAP Web Application Server
Starting with Release 6.20, the SAP Web Application Server (Web AS) contains a full-fledged J2EE server that provides standard Java support for SAP applications. However, the techniques for accessing relational databases directly from Java in Web AS 6.20 remained largely platform-specific and code-intensive. Web AS 6.30 introduces Open SQL for Java, a framework for relational...…
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Develop More Extensible and Maintainable Web Applications with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Design Pattern
Release 6.10 of the SAP Web Application Server (Web AS) introduced the Business Server Pages (BSP) technology, a significant advancement in SAP web application development. However, the basic BSP approach can quickly become cumbersome as applications inevitably increase in size and complexity. To address this issue, with Web AS 6.20 SAP added support for the...…
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Combine Data from Multiple R/3 Tables into One BW Table
Having to combine data from multiple R/3 sources into one BW table is a common requirement. Fortunately, BW 3.x provides a means – flexible staging – to carry out this requirement. The author shows how to configure flexible staging using an real-world example. Many of you have faced a business requirement similar to this...…
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BI Content 3.2 Add-On Deliver Balance Sheet, P&L Analyses More Easily
New functionality in the BI Content 3.2 Add-On release allows you to use contra accounts – accounts that can appear as assets or liabilities depending on their status at financial statement runtime – without custom workarounds. See how this functionality can help you produce better balance sheet and P&L analysis reports with less effort. ...…
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An Easy Way to Fix Errors in a Package (Development Class)
Have you ever assigned the wrong InfoObjects to a package prior to transport? You probably had to change the assignment for each transport request element manually. There is an easier way, and this article shows you how to do it. In BW, many operations are performed on a group of objects rather than on...…
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Event Management Offers a Real-Time Window on Your Supply Chain
SAP recently introduced its Event Management application, which allows users to monitor the supply chain and react to problems when they arise. This overview of Event Management explains the features of the functionality and provides ideas for how you might use it at your site. SAP’s newly launched event management system is designed to allow...…
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Correct Common Trade Document Errors Within SD
Delays in correcting errors in trade documents could result in fines or possibly seizure of goods. To avoid this, it is important to generate corrected documents quickly. Learn how to trace errors back to the original transaction and correct them within SAP R/3 to maintain accurate records and keep the customs officials happy. All...…
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