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Use the SIS Data Warehouse for Management Reporting
Do you need custom ABAP programs to produce management reports that show sales bookings? You have an alternative in the Sales Information System data warehouse. By using it, not only will your management reports execute faster, but you’ll have the ability to do exception reporting, too.... Membership Required You must be a member to access…
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Understanding PP Integration to Product Costing: What Do the Terms “Origin” and “Parameter” Mean?
FI practitioners are often confused by two vocabulary terms in the Production Planning module: origin and parameter. Understanding what they represent will give them a clearer picture of what their integration options are for PP. The author, a PP specialist, defines the two terms and walks the readers through the different places in R/3 where...…
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Understand RCA Concepts to More Easily Evaluate Your Ever-Expanding CO Module Functionality Options
SAPexperts’FinancialsSince 1998, SAP has supported more than one costing philosophy in the R/3 CO module. This means that the CO user/designer has more and potentially confusing options when making scope decisions. The author focuses on one of those costing philosophies–Resource Consumption Accounting–and compares it to the better understood full absorption accounting so that you better...…
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Avoid User Confusion by Reconciling Reports Containing SD, FI, and PCA Data with KEAT
CO-PA produces different period-end billing numbers than do the SD, FI, and PCA modules for the same period. This is because CO-PA looks ahead and sometimes estimates numbers that are not seen in the other modules until later. This confuses many users who needlessly resort to manual reconciliation. A new transaction, KEAT, reconciles the period...…
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Create Great Custom Report Design Specs for Your ABAP Team Using Table COEP
Sometimes the only way to meet a CO reporting requirement is to have your ABAP team generate a custom program. The integrity and performance of that program depends on the quality of the instructions you give the team. Table COEP plays an important role here, because its indexes will help ensure good report response time...…
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PDK Installation and Customization for SSO Access to SAP Systems: Essential Lessons for Developers and Implementation Teams
In SAP’s Enterprise Portal, iViews provide an integrated view of the business information that is vital to your organization. While SAP offers ready-made iViews, to fully realize the benefits you will want to build iViews customized to your particular organization. The Portal Development Kit (PDK) is SAP’s platform for building custom Java iViews. This article...…
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning for a Successful OS/DB Migration Project
/Project ManagementAre you an administrator or project manager on the verge of an OS or DB migration? If so, you have a lot of planning ahead of you and a lot of work to do, and you are likely under enormous pressure to complete the migration as fast as possible using a minimum number of...…
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Mastering the asXML Format to Leverage ABAP-XML Serialization
As every SAP developer knows, exchanging data with other applications and systems is simply a fact of everyday life. But implementation can be complex, even for experienced ABAP programmers. Release 6.10 now comes with a powerful feature that provides support for open, standards-based data exchange – ABAP-XML serialization. Its power derives in part from the...…
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Ask the FI/CO Expert: What Are the “Line Item Display” and the “Only Balances in Local Currency” G/L Master Data Checkboxes Really Doing?
Two seemingly innocent checkbox items might have negative long-term consequences if you don’t understand the questions they actually represent. The master data for your G/L account numbers offers you several checkbox options. Of these, two seem particularly innocent and friendly. Line item display is the first. Only balances in local currency is the second. Yes...…
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Split and Speed Up Your CO-PA Reports Using the Report/Report Interface
Has your PA report performance slowed down lately? The size of your database might be to blame. The report/report interface provides a way to speed things up by reducing the amount of report data it has to summarize. You often hear business users complain, “Why does this PA report take so long? It used to...…
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