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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 FI/CO Expert: Know When to Ignore the Standard Settings for Purchase Order Tax Code Defaults May 15, 2003 — The author explains why an FI support team might be having problems “defaulting” a 0 percent tax code when creating a purchase order. Key Concept Dear FI/CO Expert, I recently joined my company’s SAP FI support team. We have been asked if it is possible to “default” a 0 percent tax code when creating a […]

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Improve Your Lockbox Performance with User Exits, a Reformat Program, and Customized Reports May 15, 2003 — In a typical implementation of lockbox service, users frequently encounter process, data, or functionality issues that are not controllable by the standard configuration. The author draws on her recent experience with a lockbox implementation to show how to develop workarounds with user exits and reformat programs. Payment transactions in the United States are made almost […]

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A Simpler, Cleaner Approach to Trend Reporting in BW Using Variables May 15, 2003 — When building reports that show past and projected results, query designers might start by creating a large column structure. This approach might prove cumbersome. The author shows a more flexible method using structures and a little user input via simple variables. Your company wants a report that shows all sales (value or volume) over […]

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A Developer’s Guide to Making Applications More Effective, Easier to Learn, and Simpler to Use May 15, 2003 — The ease with which an application can be learned and used, as well as how its quality is perceived, is a critical but often underrated determinant of the application’s success (or failure). This article aims to provide you with a foundational knowledge and the resources you need for building better, more usable applications for your […]

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C for Java Programmers May 15, 2003 — It’s a reasonable assumption that both .NET and J2EE will dominate as development platforms for quite some time. In keeping with this widely held belief, SAP offers the SAP Java Connector (JCo), which allows Java applications to access ABAP applications, and more recently has introduced the SAP .NET Connector, which provides a similar capability for […]

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Performance Problems in ABAP Programs: How to Find Them May 15, 2003 — Many factors can cause sluggish execution of a transaction or a report. If you’ve ruled out deficiencies in the system setup, mishandling by users, or the need for parallel processing, then you need to revisit your code and see if the source of your runtime problems is lurking there. But how do you approach such […]

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How to Report on Data from R/3 and an External Source May 15, 2003 — Combining data from R/3 with data from another system is easy as long as both sources of the data contain a similar unique element. The author shows how using the example of a company that wants to combine employee data from R/3 with average clock-in and clock-out times from an external card key system. As […]

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Managing Your Employee Dates May 15, 2003 — Learn how to use infotype 41 (Date Specifications) and infotype 19 (Monitoring of Dates) to manage all the dates for employees stored in your R/3 HR/Payroll system. The employees stored in your R/3 HR/Payroll system have dates and lots of them. They have hire dates, term dates, load dates, next review dates, last review dates, […]

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Payroll and Benefits Integration: Understanding Evaluation Dates May 15, 2003 — In benefits, cost information is presented in terms of expected or estimated amounts. A complex set of factors comes into play during payroll processing that can cause the actual deductions to be different. This article examines the integration between payroll and benefits so that you can explain to your end users why this happens. In […]

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Remunerating Multi-Rated Employees May 15, 2003 — The problem of employees who are remunerated at multiple rates is not new. To deal with it, the author proposes a model using R/3’s standard HR Personnel Administration (PA), Cross Application Time Sheet system (CATS), and Organizational Management (OM). You are part of the HR/payroll department of a large manufacturing/service organization. You have people in […]

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