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Ask the FI/CO Expert: How to Manage Customizing Activities Directly in Production Without Using Transports
In response to a reader’s question, the author explains how to add a new G/L account to the financial statement version directly in the development system. Two confusing vocabulary words, “current settings” and “message control,” have an impact on this everyday task. Key Concept This month Nathan Genez takes a turn answering the Ask...…
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Product Drilldown Information System Provides User-Friendly Reporting on Production Order Cost Accounting
When compared to R/3’s ready-to-use inventory accounting reports, the options for PO cost accounting are not as friendly. As of Release 4.0A, though, your R/3 system comes delivered with an extra costing database made just for accountants that you can activate, populate, and report off quite easily. Called Product Drilldown Information System, it resembles PA’s...…
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Understanding the Impact SAP’s “Planned Scrap” Functionality Has on Your Cost of Goods Accounting
Many companies know how much scrap is routinely involved in the production of their assemblies and finished goods. R/3 provides a method of entering these known scrap amounts as planned scrap in logistics master data. Several potential advantages result in areas such as costing, production, and procurement. Since no manufacturing process is perfect, there will...…
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What’s an “Assignment Number,” and How a Misunderstanding Can Give Your End Users an Unfriendly Surprise
A default sort allows you to sort accounts by different criteria, such as expense accounts by cost center and assets accounts by asset number. Its role is sometimes confusing, however, and therefore it is underused in the FI module. The author clears up two sources of confusion: terminology and the possibility the system presents of...…
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A Hidden Process in the Routing Helps Assign Activities from Multiple Cost Centers to One Operation
Using the example of a quality control process in a fertilizer factory, the author shows how to use business processes in recipes to map activities from different cost centers to one operation. The method also applies for mapping multiple costs center to a network activity if you are using the R/3 Project System module. Have...…
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Best Practices for Implementing Domestic Partner Health Coverage
Beginning with Release 4.7, R/3 provides full support for configuration of domestic partner coverage on U.S. health plans. The author gives practical advice on applying the rules to actual situations, based on his several years of experience working with this type of coverage. Beginning with Release 4.7, R/3 provides full support for configuration of domestic...…
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Understanding and Managing Payroll Retrocalculations
One of the most complicated aspects of R/3’s Payroll functionality is the concept of retrocalculations. It’s complex, no getting around that. However, if you understand the basics, you can use that knowledge to figure out what happened to cause the retrocalculation, and what the retrocalculation changed. One of the most complicated aspects of R/3’s Payroll...…
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Key Considerations for Implementing R/3’s Succession Planning Module
R/3’s Succession Planning functionality, which helps organizations identify internal talent, requires a commitment from the business side of the organization. The continual update of detailed employee data is essential for a successful implementation. The author provides tips for designing or updating your succession planning strategy. Having the ability to identify internal talent is a goal...…
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Flattening the Learning Curve for the Overlooked PU12 Interface Toolbox
The SAP HR module is delivered with PU12, an interface development framework that is often overlooked because of the learning curve associated with its use. The author, using the example of a master data interface designed to extract employee data for an employee directory, explains the major concepts and flow behind the technology. “Think of...…
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Ask the HR Expert: Overriding Default Values in PD Infotypes for Employee Events
There’s a common misconception that the pay grade value entered in the Personnel Development side attached to a job or position is linked directly to the infotype 0008 on the Personnel Administration side. Actually, the only link that exists is one that allows you to have a value default on the infotype 008 screen during...…
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