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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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Are Your Safety Stock Levels Optimal? Match Your Method with APO Supply Planning Methodology Sep 1, 2003 — SAP APO provides two methods for dealing with safety stock–the stock that you keep on hand in the event that you do not have enough material to deliver on orders. They are the Basic and Extended Safety Stock Methods. Each is designed for a specific supply planning methodology. Misalignment between the APO’s safety stock methods […]

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Stock Transport Order Exceptions No Longer a Problem with This Technique Sep 1, 2003 — As companies increasingly turn to international networks to manage production, sales, and distribution, they depend on R/3 MM’s Stock Transport Order (STO) to support volume transactions across plants. However, STO has limited capability to deal with exceptions such as an expedited replenishment. The author describes a workaround that will allow STO to more easily handle […]

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Track Cross-Company Sales Using BW’s Return Tables Sep 1, 2003 — Reporting on cross-company sales is sometimes confusing in BW because of the way company codes are assigned. It can be difficult to see from which division sales are being received. BW has a feature called “return tables” that can get you around this problem, and the author explains how. A global company often trades goods […]

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Sarbanes–Oxley: How It Affects You and What You Should Do About It Now Sep 1, 2003 — The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 affects the logistics and supply chain teams as well as your company’s financial people. What will be your role in bringing your organization into compliance? What areas do you need to be concerned with? This article frames the tasks that you and your team are likely to perform as a […]

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Configure HR Actions/Events to Improve Your Reports Aug 15, 2003 — The configuration of personnel actions such as hiring, terminations, and organizational assignments in R/3 is completely customizable. The R/3-delivered actions, also known as personnel events, can be customized to your company’s needs so that you can collect necessary data and assign specific employment statuses. The employee data collected during your actions then can be classified […]

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Enhance Benefits Plan Eligibility with a User Exit Aug 15, 2003 — The R/3 benefits module provides a variety of ways to configure eligibility for benefits plans. Macro-eligibility is determined by the first and second program groups, which prior to Release 4.5 were known as “benefit group” and “benefit status.” Micro-eligibility is controlled through eligibility rules. Common criteria such as age, zip code, and number of scheduled […]

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Understand Payroll Wage Type Processing: Payroll Schema and Rule Basics Aug 15, 2003 — 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 Aug 15, 2003 — 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?Jul 15, 2003 — 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 Jul 15, 2003 — 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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