SAP SRM Advanced EBP Cookbook

Highlights Include Little known configuration options Important OSS notes and patches Using the ITS debug facility Undocumented transaction codes Workflow implementation scenarios Table Of Contents Main SRM Programs Little known configuration options Working with Workflow Copying Workflows Meta-BAPIs Popular Modifications / Enhancements Business Add-Ins (BADIs) Activating/Deactivating BADIs Limitations of BADIs BAPI Extensions Modification Assistant Upgrade Issues Working with ITS services/templates Most Important Services Modifying ITS service template files Adding search helps Adjusting the HTML templates Customer-Specific Account Assignment Transport hints Troubleshooting/debugging hints Debugging Build of Catalog URL Hints on Debugging Return of Catalogue Data Debugging Workflow Debugging Initial Creation of Backend Objects Troubleshooting Application Monitor messages Checking on Invoices Distribution Model for ALE Remove PIRS from Sourcing Consideration ? Change Preferred Vendor to Fixed Vendor Read full post

SAPTIPS Journal December/January Volume

Contents from the Journal:

FI/CO:Making the Transition from GAAP to IFRS in SAP
MM:Do Your Vendors Measure Up?:Measure and Record Vendor Performance
HR:Guidelines for Creating and Managing OM Structures
BASIS:The SAP Web Dispatcher:What It Is and How It Is Installed
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Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation

Information Technology professionals can use this book to move beyond the excitement of web services and service oriented architecture (SOA) and begin the process of finding actionable ideas to innovate and create business value. In Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, SAP’s blueprint for putting SOA to work is analyzed from top to bottom. In addition to design, development, and architecture, vital contextual issues such as governance, security, change management, and culture are also explored. This comprehensive perspective reduces risk as IT departments implement ESA, a sound, flexible architecture for adapting business processes in response to changing market conditions. Read full post

Enterprise Asset Management:Configuring and Administering SAP R/3 Plant Maintenance

Enterprise Asset Management: Configuring and Administering SAP R/3 Plant Maintenance provides a step-by-step guide to SAP PM configuration, information required by those interested in using the Plant Maintenance module or those interested in improving their use of the module.
Benefit from years of R/3 Plant Maintenance implementation and upgrade experience across many industries.

Gain an understanding of the many ways in which R/3 Plant Maintenance can be configured, described in terms that are easy to understand. Learn which configuration steps can be easily adjusted later and which cannot. Discover the configuration steps that integrate with other SAP R/3 modules and what effect the configuration will have on those modules. Read full post

SAP ABAP Interview Questions,Answers and Explanations

The Ultimate Learning Guide for SAP ABAP Consultants It’ s clear that SAP ABAP is one of the most important areas in SAP. Mastering technical details is difficult. SAP ABAP Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations guides you through your learning process. From helping you to assess your ABAP skills to evaluating candidates for a job, SAP ABAP Certification and Interview book will help you understand what you really need to know. The book is organized around eight areas of SAP ABAP: Databases, Lists, Tables, Dialog, ABAP Objects, Basis, and others. Each question includes everything you need to know to master the interview or properly evaluate a candidate. More than just a rehash of SAP documentation and sales presentations, each question is based on project knowledge and experience gained on successful high-profile SAP implementations. Read full post

Characteristic Based Planning with mySAP SCM

Characteristics are used in SAP as attributes, e.g. to specify the configuration of products or the properties of batches. In many industries – engineering, automotive, mill, pharmaceutical and foods to name the most typical – supply chain planning has to consider these characteristics. APO offers many different functionalities for planning with characteristics, where each of the functionalities has some prerequisites and incompatibilities. This book offers help and advice for the basic design of the implementation by explaining the processes and scenarios (process chains) for planning with characteristics, the functionalities for planning with characteristics in APO including their prerequisites and incompatibilities and the entities, dependencies and system configuration determinants for planning with characteristics in R/3 and APO. This book is based on the releases R/3 4.7 and mySAP SCM 4.1. Read full post