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What IT Professionals Need to Know About SAP Enhancement Packages for SAP ERP Article(PDF 295 KB)

SAP enhancement packages represent a new software delivery strategy that allows you to get innovations on top of SAP ERP 6.0 without the need for fully upgrading your current release. With SAP enhancement packages, the methodology for implementing new functionality has significantly changed. This document outlines the basic ideas of the new concept and the implementation procedure for SAP enhancement packages for SAP ERP. Furthermore, this document links to the guides and notes that SAP provides. Getting familiar with these procedures will help you to minimize implementation efforts.11 Aug 2009

SAP NetWeaver MDM Walkthrough: Configure a Landscape and Run Core Processes (Demo Script) Article(PDF 1 MB)

This document describes how to quickly consolidate master data e.g. business partners from an SAP CRM system via SAP NetWeaver Process Integration into SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management 5.5.
Related demo (Time: 10:55)10 Aug 2009

Sales and Distribution Pricing Article(PDF 262 KB)

This article describes a pricing concept in Sales and Distribution (SD) which follows the condition technique approach. It describes pricing components and their configuration in SAP and how pricing data is stored in an SAP table.05 Aug 2009

SAP NetWeaver MDM Business Content - What's In It For You? Presentation(PDF 229 KB)

This presentation provides an overview of the business content for SAP NetWeaver MDM, including current development planning.01 Aug 2009

Concepts of Central Person and its Significance in Different Personnel Assignments - SAP HCM Article(PDF 255 KB)

This article explains the concept of Central Person and shows the steps to follow in case all of the personnel assignments for a personnel number are not shown in PA30.20 Jul 2009

Configuration of Actions in Personnel Management – SAP HCM Article(PDF 391 KB)

This article explains the steps to configure the personnel actions, action types, info groups and also some necessary features used during configuration of actions in Personnel Management.20 Jul 2009

Positive Pay EDI Process in SAP Article(PDF 120 KB)

Positive Pay is an anti-fraud service offered by virtually every US commercial bank. It protects companies against altered checks and counterfeit check fraud.19 Jul 2009

How to Process the Lockbox Job failed due to IDoc status 64 Article(PDF 489 KB)

Sometimes lockbox background jobs fail due to inbound IDoc status remaining at “64 - IDoc ready to be transferred to application”, instead of “53 - Application document posted”. Since there is no background job scheduled, all the inbound IDocs that come from EDI to SAP are processed at once and the high volume leads to congestion. All the IDocs are not processed and the system assigns status '64' to these IDocs. This article explains how to successfully process such IDocs of Lockbox in order to post the documents into SAP.09 Jul 2009

Handling a Depreciation Posting Error for a New Company Code Article(PDF 108 KB)

This article shows how to handle the depreciation posting error essage “You can only post in New Year after Closing the Previous Year” for a new company code for which asset accounting is implemented for the first time in the SAP system.06 Jul 2009

Versatile SAP Alert Management for Sales Force Article(PDF 144 KB)

Today, there are challenging ERP business scenarios in a complex world. Most of the industries now-a-days associate ERP with SAP. The reason being that SAP ensures and integrates the end-to-end business processes for its Client(s) without hurdles. As a part of ERP ECC 6.0 + Enhancement Package 2, Alert Management plays a vital role in all modules regardless of functionality.01 Jul 2009

Concept of Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS) in SAP R3 4.7 Version Article(PDF 113 KB)

This article provides an overview of evaluated receipt settlement(ERS) in SAP R/3 4.7 Version.29 Jun 2009

SAP Enhancement Packages for SAP ERP 6.0: Implementation - Scenarios, Procedure and Tools Presentation(PDF 3 MB)

Overview of the end-to-end implementation process for SAP ERP 6.0 enhancement packages. The presentation explains the different use cases - new installation, upgrade of an exiting system and update of a system with enhancement packages. The Solution Manager Maintenance Optimizer and SAP Enhancement Package Installer are introduced.26 Jun 2009

India Payroll: Customer Specific Prorating of House Rent Allowance Article(PDF 126 KB)

How to enable the system to prorate house rent allowance when an employee goes on loss of pay/unpaid absence.16 Jun 2009

Authorization Management for Classification: A Case Study Article(PDF 110 KB)

This is a case study about the general requirements related to Authorizations in Classification Component. Solution for these requirements is explained in detail with examples.10 Jun 2009

Events and Event Controlled Job Scheduling Article(PDF 867 KB)

While executing Jobs, we can use an Event as the indicator to tell the Job that the desired status and time is fulfilled to start the Job. The detail of creating Events and scheduling Jobs depending on the event is explained here.02 Jun 2009

Creation and Use of Variant Transaction Article(PDF 533 KB)

The document contains details on Creation of screen variants, Transaction Variants and Variant Transaction by using the Transaction Variant. This is a step by step guide with sufficient print screens for easy understanding.01 Jun 2009

Capital Procurement in SAP Article(PDF 730 KB)

This document shall help P2P consultants in the area of Procurement of capital material in various industries in India. It is prepared to suits for Indian procurement conditions.29 May 2009

Energy Intensity in Maintenance Article(PDF 1 MB)

How energy intensity can be used in maintenance activities using the SAP solutions.22 May 2009

COPA Realignment Article(PDF 703 KB)

A normal phenomenon with business users is that data is posted with wrong assignments and they realized the incorrect assignments and corrected. Now they want to correct the posted data for accurate COPA reporting. I will explain a methodology in my article a function called “ Realignment” to reflect changes to derivations and organizational assignments to update the existing transaction data without any customization .20 May 2009

Creating and Using a Feature in SAP HR Article(PDF 188 KB)

This article describes how a feature can be created and used in HR Programming.19 May 2009

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