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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.

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Control Open Enrollment with an Adjustment Reason Oct 15, 2003 — You can configure an adjustment reason to gain better control over the open enrollment offer. This is for companies that consider open enrollment to be a period during which only certain employees can change certain benefit elections. What does “open enrollment” mean at your company? The SAP application considers open enrollment to be a period […]

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Enter Debug Mode at Any Time Oct 15, 2003 — The debug mode is often underused considering its ability to speed up development efforts. Provided your ID has adequate authorization, you can enter debug mode at any time. The article also explains how to debug an Employee Self-Service transaction. Although most technical readers are probably already aware of the debug mode, it is often underused […]

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Four Tips on Applying Payroll Schemas and Rules Oct 15, 2003 — In part two of his series on payroll schemas and rules, the author gives four tips on making new rules or changing existing rules. He covers how to stay compatible with SAP’s standard schemas and rules, where to place custom rules in the payroll schema, how to salvage poorly written or incorrect custom rules, and […]

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Sarbanes-Oxley: How Will It Affect You?Oct 15, 2003 — The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOA) was enacted by the United States Congress to prevent accounting scandals and reporting problems from recurring, and to rebuild public trust in business practices. This article is a quick guide that outlines provisions of the Act that are of particular interest to HR organizations tasked with helping their companies […]

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See All of an Employee’s Workflows in Just One View Oct 15, 2003 — Wouldn’t it be great if there were a tool you could use to see all the workflows related to a particular employee? Well, there is. It’s called generic objects services (GOS). It’s available as of R/3 Release 4.0. The phone rings. Again. It’s Ted Bullpit. “I put in a leave request last week, but I […]

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Create Calculated Fields in SAP Query for HR and Payroll Data Oct 15, 2003 — When you want to perform calculations on your data, you may be accustomed to downloading an R/3 report into Microsoft Excel and performing calculations there. However, you can save yourself some work by creating the calculated fields in SAP Query itself. Using an example query, the author shows you how. At some point, you will […]

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Report Deletes Relationships to “Ghost” Objects Oct 15, 2003 — Routine maintenance of Personnel Development (PD) objects can become complicated if one or more of the objects involved has been improperly deleted from R/3 or has become invalid. In some instances, you may be unable to proceed with the maintenance on these objects because of this inconsistent state. This article shows you what report to […]

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Create Offline Reporting ‘Cockpits’ with Reporting Agent Oct 1, 2003 — Sometimes the people who need reports from BW aren’t connected to a BW system. BW 3.x’s Reporting Agent provides a means to get reports to your offline users. Here’s how to use this advanced feature with screenprints and step-by-step instructions. Offline access to BW data is the best way to meet an information access […]

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Sarbanes-Oxley: Speed Your Closing Processes with BW and SEM Oct 1, 2003 — One result of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is that companies will need to close their books faster. BW and SEM offer functionalities and applications that help you achieve the fast close, including process chains, Business Consolidations System, and the Corporate Performance Monitor. Learn how you can use each of these to speed your closing. […]

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SAP’s Check Tools Keep Your BW Data Consistent Oct 1, 2003 — What good is your data if you aren’t confident of its accuracy? SAP provides two check tools, transaction RSRV and the aggregate check tool, that help you confirm the accuracy of your data on an ad hoc or ongoing basis. The author describes each tool’s capabilities and shows you how to put them to use. […]

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