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Understand Payroll Wage Type Processing: Payroll Schema and Rule Basics
Payroll schemas and rules are the bridge between HR Master Data and Payroll results. Creating that bridge is similar to writing programs and performing table configuration. Rules and schemas can be a confusing process for those who are not familiar with the concepts. Configured correctly, they can lead to a stable payroll calculation. Done incorrectly,...…
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Create New Infotypes or Enhance Standard Ones to Meet User Needs
Many R/3 users need to store data that does not fit into a standard infotype. Using methods provided by SAP, they can create customer-specific infotypes or extend existing ones to meet their needs. The authors discuss some considerations in making the decision about which option to use, and give you some time-saving hints from their...…
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Who Changed My Config?
The author explains how to use the table logging functionality to answer the question, Who changed my config? Table logging is a functionality that enables recording of all insertions, deletions, and changes in configuration tables. He says it has proven invaluable in preventing configuration errors from impacting the production systems at his projects. Have you...…
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Reduce the Number of Costing Run Messages by Using Material Status
A six-month or yearly cost rollup is a task most accountants usually don’t look forward to. R/3 removes a lot of the routine, manual work, typically reducing the time taken from a month to several days. However, there’s more to the task than just executing the costing run. The cost accountant’s role becomes one of...…
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Manager Self-Service’s Monitors Send Budget Alerts to Managers
As part of a series on Manager Self-Service (MSS), the author takes a closer look at the various monitors that alert managers before budgets are overrun. The alerts are based on rules the finance department or managers define. In this article, which is part of a series on Manager Self-Service (MSS), I will take a...…
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Use Templates to View Costs in Different CO Applications
The Activity-Based Costing (ABC) module was first introduced in R/3 with Release 4.0 to allow users to access data in several other modules and to transfer costs or quantities from one to the other. This is accomplished with templates. Many users think that templates can only be used in the ABC module. However, from Release...…
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Performance Problems in ABAP Programs: How to Fix Them
Whatever the cause of your program’s performance troubles, optimizing the runtime of the application requires that you first find out where the majority of the runtime is spent. The first installment of this two-part article series showed you how to use SAP’s performance monitoring and tracing tools to identify the critical actions or code sequences...…
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Put Better Programs into Production in Less Time with Code Reviews: What They Are, How to Conduct Them, and Why
There is no substitute for a close examination of others’ code before it is released into production. A “code review” is the process of having someone other than the author evaluate a program at various points in the development cycle, prior to placing it into productive use. This article provides a brief introduction to the...…
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SAP .NET Connector for C Programmers
In the past, the SAP ActiveX Controls and the SAP DCOM Connector were the only options available for writing Windows-specific applications that communicate with ABAP-based SAP components like R/3. SAP has now released a new product for the Microsoft platform, the SAP .NET Connector, which has several advantages over the SAP ActiveX Controls and the...…
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Data Transformation in SAP Standard ALE Distributed Business Processes: How to Ensure an Efficient, Effective Implementation
SAP’s Application Link Enabling (ALE) is an integrated toolset for distributing data between SAP systems as well as between SAP and non-SAP systems. ALE offers a wide range of tools for performing data conversions between systems, each with its own advantages and limitations. This article outlines these data conversion tools — their capabilities, relative merits,...…
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