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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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New mySAP SCM WM Features Support Rapid Turnover of Materials Oct 1, 2003 — Three new features delivered with SAP R/3 Enterprise SCM Extension 2.0 are designed to help you increase the turnover of goods in your warehouses. Yard Management lets you manage inbound and outbound carriers. Cross-Docking allows you to direct inbound goods straight from goods receipt to goods issue, and value-added services help you capture value-adding costs. […]

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Improve Safety Stock Accuracy with APO’s Extended Method Oct 1, 2003 — Do your safety stock levels always seem too high or too low? It’s possible that you have not chosen the right APO method or have set it up in a less-than-optimal manner. We explain the considerations, drivers, and settings for using APO’s extended safety stock method and show you why it might be more accurate […]

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8 Steps to Document Controls for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Oct 1, 2003 — As an operational specialist, you might not have as much experience documenting internal controls as your counterparts in finance. The author of this article provides a step-by-step approach for the operational side of the business and explains the differences among the different types of controls. Public companies registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) […]

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28 Points You Need to Know About SAP WM Implementation Oct 1, 2003 — Companies sometimes fail to integrate R/3 Warehouse Management with other R/3 logistics modules as well as they could. This results in inefficiencies and perhaps an expensive fix on a live system. We show you the points you need to consider to make WM work well with the rest of your R/3 logistics system and avoid […]

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24 BW Design and Data Modeling Tips for Optimal ETL Oct 1, 2003 — In terms of performance, you get the biggest return on ETL optimization in the design and modeling stages. We give you tips in six categories: general design and data modeling, PSA design, InfoCube design, ODS design, Dimensions and characteristics design, and aggregates. The extract, transform, and load (ETL) process is a key aspect of […]

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Customize Data-Entry Screens with Transaction Variants Sep 15, 2003 — The author was trying to debug a particular process and had to execute CJ88 – Actual Settlement: Project about 200 times over the course of a week. Every time he executed the transaction, he had to select the Detail List indicator at the bottom of the screen to view the details of the resulting settlement. […]

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Provide Report Writer and BW Reports Without Selection Screens Sep 15, 2003 — Manager Self-Service (MSS) provides your end users with new reporting functionalities – reports without selection screens, a new set of tables that stores their selection criteria per user, and the ability to look at more than one report on a screen. This article is the third in a series on MSS, which is standard Business […]

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Which A/R Underpayment Option Should You Use: Partial Payment or Residual Item?Sep 15, 2003 — When a customer makes a payment for an invoice that is a great deal less than the full invoice value, the A/R user has several choices of how to process the underpayment. Both users and consultants are often confused about the difference between two of those options – partial payment and residual item – because […]

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Four Ways to Publish SAP BW Content to SAP Enterprise Portal Sep 15, 2003 — BW 3.x offers greater integration with Enterprise Portal (EP) to provide centralized, Web-based access to analytical data. You have four ways to publish BW content to SAP EP, each with a different level of technical skill required. The author walks you through the publishing process for each method and explains for which circumstance each method […]

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Server Programming with the SAP Java Connector (JCo)Sep 15, 2003 — In integration projects that use the SAP Java Connector (JCo), usually the Java program is the client and the ABAP-based SAP system (e.g., R/3) is the server. In some cases, however, you might want an ABAP program to invoke functionality in a Java component. Using JCo to build an RFC (Remote Function Call) server is […]

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