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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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Repositories in the SAP Java Connector (JCo)Mar 15, 2003 — The SAP Java Connector (JCo) is the premier middleware for connecting non-SAP components written in Java to ABAP-based SAP systems like R/3. The non-SAP components can be clients (Java calls ABAP) or servers (ABAP calls Java). In both cases, you need a repository object that represents the metadata (parameters and exceptions) for the functions to […]

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XML Messaging with the SAP Business Connector Part 1: Direct IDoc-XML Data Exchange and Outbound IDoc-to-XML Data Mapping with Flow Services Mar 15, 2003 — XML messaging between your SAP system and your business partner’s system typically involves exchanging IDocs between your system and your SAP Business Connector (BC), mapping data between the IDocs and the desired external XML format, and then exchanging the XML documents between the BC and the external system. This article, the first of a two-part […]

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XML Messaging with the SAP Business Connector Part 2: Outbound IDoc-to-XML Data Mapping with XSLT and Java Services, and Inbound XML-to-IDoc Data Mapping Mar 15, 2003 — As most of us know all too well, a smooth flow of information between your business partners’ systems and your own can have a large impact on the success of your business processes. The SAP Business Connector (BC) enables you to easily and reliably exchange IDocs with your partners via XML messaging over the Internet. […]

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Build Custom Java iViews for SAP Data Using Eclipse: A Guide for Developers and Implementation Teams Mar 15, 2003 — iViews provide integrated views of business information in the mySAP Enterprise Portal. You can use one of SAP’s prebuilt iViews or you can build customized iViews to meet your users’ unique needs. As SAP continues to move the mySAP Enterprise Portal toward a pure J2EE-based environment, the importance of building custom iViews in Java will […]

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Make Your Custom Reports for Production Order Costs or WIP Easier to Write and Use by Understanding Where the Material’s Short Text Is Hiding Mar 15, 2003 — It becomes a lot easier to evaluate R/3’s month-end production cost and WIP calculations as too high or too low when you can see the text description of the material that the production order is requesting. The author explains why the text column is sometimes blank. I got a panic-type phone call from an R/3 […]

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Make Your Line Managers Better Cost Accountants with Manager Self-Service Mar 15, 2003 — This first article in a series on Manager Self-Service, one of the standard Business Package applications that come in your SAP Enterpise Portal, helps you to understand how it can change the way decision-makers use financial information in your company. (MSS) is one of the standard Business Package applications that come ready to run in […]

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Post Invoices Automatically with ERS Mar 15, 2003 — The evaluated receipt settlement (ERS) lets your R/3 system post vendor invoices automatically without internal paper flow or manual verification steps. The author says that his company recently implemented ERS at a large public service organization. The task of posting approximately 100 daily invoices, which formerly required two full-time employees, now is completed in one […]

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What You Should Know About the SD Higher-Level Item Category’s Influence on Financial Reports Mar 15, 2003 — The item category of a sales document primarily controls how the sales item is processed within SD. However, some of the settings have a significant influence on the FI module. The “higher-level” and “lower-level” item category relationships in a sales order are among the most commonly misunderstood settings in R/3. You might think that the […]

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22 Ways to Improve BW Back-End Performance Mar 1, 2003 — You have three key areas where you can boost BW performance on the back-end: the collection and extraction layer, the transformation layer, and the staging and storage layer. The author provides speed-up tips in all three of these areas. Performance tuning of the BW back-end — the data model design and data flow across […]

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Ask the BW Expert: How Do I Know if the New SAP BW 3.1 Content Release is Worthwhile for Me?Mar 1, 2003 — The 3.1 content release offers a wide range of new business content for SAP and third-party applications. Here, the author outlines what’s new in this release by SAP application, industry, and third-party application. The SAP BW 3.1 Content Release, available since last December, offers new Business Content for a range of solutions including mySAP CRM, […]

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