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Help Your Profit Analysts Find Cause-and-Effect Relationships with Three CO-PA Data Fine-Tuning Options
Three settings in a customization piece called the Sales and Distribution (SD) Pricing Procedure will give you greater ability to fine-tune profit-related data that is sent from SD to CO-PA. The article includes a walk-through exercise to help you learn the technique. Out of the many options available in SAP R/3 for influencing when and...…
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Cure Your Cost Allocation Fears: Overcoming the Four Causes of CO Module “Activities Phobia”
The “activities” functionality in the CO module is a powerful allocation tool, but many sites fail to take full advantage of it due to confusion. The author clears up this confusion by explaining its root causes. The Controlling (CO) functionality known as “activities” is potentially the most useful allocation tool in the module. This tool...…
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Ask the FI/CO Expert: “How Can You Segregate the Expected Inbound Freight Costs in Manufactured Goods’ Standard Cost Estimates?”
You can highlight estimated inbound freight costs in a Product Cost Estimate without having to do convoluted workarounds. The solution is the standard R/3 option called “Delivery Costs.” Learn what the Delivery Costs option is and how you can activate it. Key Concept This month’s “Ask the Expert” question is one that several people...…
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BAPI Return Messages Made Easy
As a developer, you know that proper error handling is one of the keys to a stable application with low maintenance cost. If you develop BAPI-enabled components and applications this means that you need to know how to deal with BAPI Return messages. This article describes in detail how BAPIs inform you about success and...…
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Optimize Database Access and Increase System Performance Through More Efficient ABAP Programming
One of the most common reasons for slow-running ABAP programs is long-running SQL statements, which can cause over-consumption of database and network resources, and ultimately, decreased performance. So how can you prevent your SQL statements from causing this? This article provides an overview of database access optimization. It discusses the various techniques available for speeding...…
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Simplify Your Accounts Payable Design: Eliminate the SAP Online Check Register!
Disabling the A/P Online Check Register is possible and it has some real advantages. Doing so returns tasks such as cashing, voiding, and research to standard transactions in the G/L. As a result, you can achieve benefits such as simplification of reconciling to the bank’s records and making it easier to fix check-printing errors. The...…
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Use a Custom ABAP Report to Find “Labor Hours Confirmed on Production Orders” Data Entry Mistakes… Before Your Month-End Closing
At some R/3 sites, the labor time spent on any given Manufacturing Order is recorded at a standard value, possibly as part of a backflushing transaction; at others, the hope is to have the operators record their actual time spent on each given Manufacturing Order, leaving wide open the possibility that operators may introduce data...…
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Improve Your CO-PA Report Response Speeds by Summarizing Your Users’ Data
When executing your ABAP reports, “summarization levels” – an additional set of tables defined in the CO-PA configuration and stored separately from segment level tables and that have their own subset of data – offer you a chance to add one or more layers to the data retrieval pyramid that will be used by COP-PA’s...…
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Ask the FI/CO Expert: “Do I Need to Create Rules Concerning Address Printing on Accounts Payable Checks?”
This month’s FI/CO expert answers a question from Paula Gennari, an Accounts Payable manager for a $100 million/year plastics manufacturer in Massachusetts. Her question concerns annoying mystery her department has experienced with their recently installed SAP R/3 system in regard to check printing-the Automatic Payment Program for their non-U.S. vendors does not print the name...…
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“In Synch” Ledgers! Update the “Cost of Goods Sold” to Both Your G/L and Costing-Based CO-PA Ledgers Solely from the “SD Billing” Transaction… With 100% Standard R/3 Functionality!
This article identifies a creative use of standard R/3 functionality that allows a single end-user transaction (SD Billing) to simultaneously act as the “Cost of Goods Sold” source for both your G/L and Costing-Based CO-PA ledgers. After a brief explanation of why the “single source” design is not the main option offered by the SAP...…
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