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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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HR’s 5 Reporting Options in R/3: How Do You Choose?Apr 15, 2003 — Satisfying your company’s Human Resource reporting requirements is always a challenge, beginning with the assessment process through the selection of the right reporting strategy. Deciding which method is best begins with a proper assessment of the reporting tools available. Author and Executive SAP Consultant Danielle Larocca compares reporting tools available in your HR module: standard […]

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Keep Master Data Consistent with Configuration When You Make Annual Design Changes to Your Benefit Plan Apr 15, 2003 — Around this time each year, benefits directors begin dropping some current benefits and adding new ones. SAP Consultant Clay Molinari explains how to use standard R/3 function modules to deal with this annual dilemma. In a smaller organization, these changes can be done manually, but they must be automated for a larger company. He’ll show […]

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Archive Search Strategy: The Default Setting Every FI End User Has Active… but May Not Understand Apr 15, 2003 — Working with SAP FI, you probably have become very familiar with the transaction code FB00, which allows you to set up a variety of user-specific FI default settings, such as the line-layout display variant. However, you might be less familiar with its document-archive settings. This article describes the six options for searching the archives, and […]

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Property Taxes in the U.S. On Your Fixed Assets: Make Sure You’re Paying The Correct State Apr 15, 2003 — Homeowners in the United States know all too well the bite of location-specific property taxes. However, that’s just financial pain. Accountants in companies with physical sites in multiple locations know the annual mental pain of compiling a list by state of the assets. Not just “property” assets such as land and buildings, but all fixed […]

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5 Easy Tips to Manipulate BEx Queries Using Variables Apr 1, 2003 — The author provides her favorite methods for getting good results with BEx queries, including specifying a variable offset and using a customer exit as a variable. Variables are very useful for manipulating a BEx query to get a specific result. Not only do variables allow you to enter your selection criteria for a query, […]

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Distribute Pre-Calculated Web Reports More Quickly Using Value Sets Apr 1, 2003 — Some reports require two queries where the second query needs the results of the first. In situations for which such a report must run repeatedly for distribution to many people, this can result in slow performance due to a large number of database accesses. By using a pre-calculated value set rather than a pre-query variable, […]

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Run Setup Jobs in Parallel and Minimize Production Downtime When Using the Logistics Extraction Cockpit Apr 1, 2003 — Running a setup job through the Logistics Extraction Cockpit requires that you to turn off your logistics application. It is therefore important that the job run as quickly as possible. The fastest way to complete the setup job is to break it up into parts and run those parts in parallel. The authors show how […]

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SAP BW Open Access Interfaces and Certified Front-end Tools: What IT and Query Designers Need to Know Apr 1, 2003 — SAP has implemented several standards to create open access interfaces to third-party tools from BW. The information in this article will help IT teams plan a strategy for integrating those tools with BW, and it will help query designers understand their interface options in regard to data access. Business Explorer (BEx), SAP BW’s suite […]

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Prepare Your R/3 System Now for the International Accounting Standards Deadline Mar 15, 2003 — Impending deadlines for compliance with the International Accounting Standards (IAS) will require hard work on the part of many accountants and R/3 specialists. The problem posed by IAS is that, in most cases, two or more sets of figures have to be managed because of the differences among IAS, US GAAP, and national fiscal reporting. […]

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Build More Powerful Web Applications in Less Time with BSP Extensions and the MVC Model Mar 15, 2003 — Release 6.10 of the SAP Web Application Server introduced a new approach to web development called Business Server Pages (BSP) that allows developers to combine HTML and ABAP on a single page. Release 6.20 enhances this capability with two new offerings: BSP extensions and support for the Model-View-Controller (MVC) model. This article shows you how […]

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