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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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Ask the BW Expert: How Do I Get Custom Hierarchies from Development into Production?Jul 1, 2003 — 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 Jul 1, 2003 — 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 Jul 1, 2003 — 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 Jul 1, 2003 — 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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Ask the FI/CO Expert: How to Manage Customizing Activities Directly in Production Without Using Transports Jun 15, 2003 — 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 Jun 15, 2003 — 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 Jun 15, 2003 — 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 Jun 15, 2003 — 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 Jun 15, 2003 — 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 Jun 15, 2003 — 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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