Apr 15, 2005
•15 minute read
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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.
Avoid a Disconnect Between Your MM and FI Period ClosesYour cutoff for transactions at close may be affected if you don’t understand the relationship between the Materials Management (MM) period close and the FI period close. You can configure your R/3 system to ensure a clean cutoff for MM transactions at period close. Key Concept The posting of MM balances to an MM period […]
Ask the HR Expert: Locate Unoccupied Positions Without Vacancy ProcessingYou can track unused positions in Organizational Management via vacancy processing as a part of an overall position-management process. In the absence of vacancy processing, you can track unused or “open” positions and modify them to display the proper staffing levels in a given organizational unit. Standard reports in R/3 provide the information necessary to […]
Apr 15, 2005
•5 minute read
Indirect Valuation Modules: Customize Your Wage CalculationsR/3 provides a variety of indirect valuation modules for determining the entry amounts for wage types. However, in many scenarios, the existing modules may not suffice and you may need to create your own. Moreover, these computed entry amounts are not stored in the same manner as other fields of an infotype. The handling of […]
Apr 15, 2005
•25 minute read
Use Standard Utilities to Transfer OM Data Between Clients and from Legacy SystemsFunctional experts can use standard R/3 programs that don’t require ABAP resources to transfer organizational data between clients or to create large amounts of new organizational data in a client. Key Concept R/3 provides standard programs that you can use to move existing organizational management objects and infotypes across clients and to load new OM […]
Apr 15, 2005
•17 minute read
Save Time by Using CATT to Upload HR Data AutomaticallyYou can use the Computer-Aided Test Tool (CATT) as an HR data upload tool that works as if you had a real user inputting the data into R/3 — except that CATT automates the task. Key Concept CATT stands for Computer-Aided Test Tool. It was originally developed as a testing tool. Both functional and technical […]
Apr 15, 2005
•7 minute read
Ask the HR Expert: Use a Custom Program to Run Your Process Model on a Repeating ScheduleYou can create your own program if you want to automate the running of your process models. Key Concept Dear HR Expert, I read your article in the January 2005 issue of HR Expert regarding automating payroll postings with a process model, and I liked it very much. How do you set up a process […]
Apr 15, 2005
•3 minute read
Take Control of Standard Text in SDBusinesses frequently need to communicate promotional or informational messages to their customers via output documents. You can save time by maintaining such text in your SAP R/3 system through the use of text determination. Key Concept Standard texts are text objects within the R/3 environment that can be used more than once. You can include […]
Apr 15, 2005
•7 minute read
Can You Really Post to COGS During a Billing Process?You can post credit memos to the cost of goods sold without creating an imbalance between FI and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). However, you have to account for the revenue account determination, cost element categories, pricing procedure components, and how signs are handled in FI and CO-PA. Key Concept Creating an invoice is the most fundamental […]
Apr 15, 2005
•17 minute read
Meet Complex Business Requirements with User Exits in SEM-BPSYou can easily customize SAP’s Business Planning and Simulation (SEM-BPS) module with user-defined functional enhancements to achieve specific or advanced business requirements. Key Concept You can optimize standard business planning functionality through the introduction of custom code. This custom code uses SAP-provided user exit points to minimize risk. SAP provides several useful opportunities to insert […]
Apr 15, 2005
•15 minute read
RFID Primer for the SAP SCM ProfessionalIntroducing RFID to a shop floor, warehouse, or retail environment requires that the SAP professional learn about new kinds of hardware and standards. Discover the differences among the different RFID tags and readers, and see how you might integrate them into an SAP landscape. Key Concept The SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure (AII) integrates data from smart-item […]
Apr 1, 2005
•13 minute read
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