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5 Best Practices for a Smooth Training and Events System Extension
It is often just a matter of time until companies that are live with R/3’s Personnel Administration and Organizational Management implement the remaining HR functionalities, such as the Training and Event Management component (PE). Once PE is implemented, it makes sense to leverage the investment by employing the application everywhere in your organization where learning...…
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HR Module Maintenance Best Practices Using HR Support Packages
Almost immediately after implementing the HR module, each customer is faced with the need to keep its R/3 system current by applying HR Support Packages. This article explains how you can continue to ensure a high level of reliability in your production environment by fitting HRSPs into your existing change management process. In traditional, custom-built...…
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Unleash the Power of Dynamic Actions: Tips and Tricks to Get the Best Results
The Personnel Administration (PA) submodule contains a plethora of interrelated infotypes. Your business process may demand that changes made in one infotype affect the fields of another, or that they trigger an entirely separate activity. Imagine yourself in a situation where you may be required to create a tax infotype automatically for an employee when...…
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8 Steps to Take and 9 Tips to Consider Before You Implement the Travel Management Module for Trip Expenses
Travel is one of the largest controllable expenses for a company. SAP’s Travel Management module (FI-TV) is designed to help a company manage these costs. The author, who worked for SAP AG as a developer of the module, gives a business process perspective on the technical configuration to help you get started, if you are...…
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Fast Data Conversion, Migration, and Updates for Functional Analysts with LSMW
SAPepxerts/FinancialsData conversion is no longer a one-time activity. Gone are the days when it was required only during an initial SAP implementation project. Here are some day-to-day business scenarios when you may be called upon to convert data. Data conversion is no longer a one-time activity. Gone are the days when it was required only...…
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Split One Record into Multiple Records for Reports Using Return Tables
When a report requires that one record be split into multiple records, the method often used is to modify the data in the source system. You can avoid this tedious process by using a hard-to-find BW option called the return table. It allows you to insert ABAP code within an update rule to split the...…
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Ask the BW Expert: How Do I Get Custom Hierarchies from Development into Production?
Follow this simple two-step process for transferring a custom hierarchy for an InfoObject from your development system into your production system. Dear BW Expert, I’ve created a custom hierarchy for an InfoObject directly in the BW development system and did not load it from R/3. How do I get the hierarchy into the production environment?...…
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Automate Sales Analytics in BW as a Predecessor to a Full CRM/BW Landscape
Use BW’s Reporting Agent and standard Business Content to automatically generate operational sales-analytics reports, and pave the way for a full-blown mySAP CRM implementation later. What do your sales people, or at least your good sales people, do best? Sell! Sell! Sell! Are your sales people great at planning and running Excel? Are they good...…
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Meet the Three Challenges of Extracting Financial Data: High Volume, Content Modifications, and Satisfying User Needs
Learn how to optimize three key processes to help meet the demands of extracting line-item financial data from R/3: loading financial data, enhancing the extraction process to modify content, and defining delta management to deal with high volume. Extracting FI line-item data presents a number of challenges. Because of the large volume of detailed...…
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Put BW’s Newly Enhanced Data-Mining Tools to Use
BW has built-in data-mining capability that lets you perform many types of customer analytics without having a full mySAP CRM implementation. Find out how BW’s seven data-mining tools and their associated models can help you answer key questions about your customers. Think of an aspect of your business where you feel cost could be...…
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