Feb 1, 2005
•12 minute read
Articles
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.
Automate Your Updates Even When Deltas Won’t WorkKeeping the data in your InfoProviders current is critical if you want to give end users reports with any real value. Automation is the key to efficiently performing updates that keeps the data fresh. Here’s a way to automate even the toughest updates using process chains and a little custom code. Key Concept Automating transactional […]
Query View Web Items Increase User Functionality and Improve PerformanceQuery views offer you a powerful tool that can make life easier for end users and enhance overall system performance. You can maintain and name views so that end users more readily identify and access them. While they are very powerful, views are not used enough because many don’t know how useful they are. Key […]
Feb 1, 2005
•12 minute read
Statutory Requirements Compliance: Are You Ready for China?Prior to rolling out an R/3 system to China, a company needs to answer the question, “What statutory compliances does China require and how do I make sure the R/3 FI/CO implementation meets these requirements?” The author shares her experience from consulting on a dozen China rollouts in multiple industries, including two in 2004. She […]
Jan 15, 2005
•19 minute read
Save Time for Your Payroll Department by Enhancing Your Process ModelYou can automate your payroll process model so that it releases and posts accounting documents to FI/CO. This saves a step for your payroll department and ensures completeness and consistency. Key Concept The HR Process Workbench, transaction PUST, is used to automate program execution for the payroll process. Using process models, it runs the […]
Jan 15, 2005
•3 minute read
Save Time by Automating Your SAP Queries: Part 2Part 1 of this series on how to automate an SAP Query, published in the October 2004 issue, showed the option of sending the output to a shared location. Part 2 explains the option of sending the output to users by email. Key Concept R/3 accesses the function module SX_OBJECT_CONVERT_ALI_HTM in SAPconnect to convert the […]
Jan 15, 2005
•13 minute read
Quickly and Easily Map Your ABAP and XML Data Using SAP Simple TransformationsXML is at the heart of a number of developments that are likely to become basic technology standards, such as Web services. In turn, the ability to move data between XML documents and your ABAP data structures is becoming a key business requirement. While middleware like the SAP Exchange Infrastructure supports this task for large-scale […]
Jan 15, 2005
•2 minute read
Protect the Integrity of Your PD Data by Managing Time ConstraintsYou can control how your Personnel Development (PD) objects and structures react and relate to one another over time by properly using time constraints. Key Concept Personnel Development (PD) data in SAP consists of complex groupings of related objects and data structures. The relationships between PD objects carry specific meanings and are configured to exist […]
Jan 15, 2005
•13 minute read
Integrating Non-SAP Data and Web Content into Your SAP Enterprise Portal — A Guided Tour of Your Options, Which to Use, and WhenA portal that offers a single point of seamless access to various internal and external systems and content can save users a significant amount of time and frustration, and improve productivity. To achieve these benefits, however, users need to actually use the portal, and the key to getting users to use the portal is to […]
Jan 15, 2005
•2 minute read
Improve Your Bad Debts Risk ReportingSAP’s reserve for bad debt functionality can help you make more accurate A/R reports. This little-known functionality helps you to automatically transfer bad debts to special reconciliation accounts and post provisions for bad debts. In addition, it’s easy to configure. Key Concept Posting the reserve for bad debts consists of two steps. The first step […]
Jan 15, 2005
•11 minute read
Get Ready to Exploit Regular Expression Pattern Matching to Examine and Manipulate Complex Data in Your ABAP ProgramsMany text search/replacement problems are difficult to address without using regular expression pattern matching. As part of an upcoming SAP NetWeaver release, SAP will introduce native regular expression processing functionality into SAP Web Application Server (SAP Web AS) ABAP. To prepare you to use this facility effectively, this article provides a basic introduction to regular […]
Jan 15, 2005
•2 minute read
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