SAP Transportation Management: Overview Presentation

This document provides a comprehensive overview of SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM), detailing its architecture, key functionalities, and best practices for implementation.

  • Overview of Transportation Management
  • TM Architecture
  • Master Data in TM
  • Order Capture in TM
  • The TM Planning Cockpit
  • Carrier Selection and Tendering
  • Charge Calculation
  • Freight Order Execution
  • Track and Trace
  • Settlement
  • Analytics
  • Advanced Topics
  • Observations and Recommendations

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Configuration Guide to Account Determination in SAP

This document provides an overview of account determination configuration in SAP FI. Account determinations automate the assignment of general ledger accounts to financial transactions, supporting consistency, accuracy and integration between modules.

Key tips and tools for managing account determinations are provided with the following topics covered in detail:

  • The Concept of Account Determinations: Defines account determinations and their benefits for posting consistency, ease of use, and accuracy.
  • FI Transactions: Covers configuration of account determinations for retained earnings, fixed assets, taxes, payments and other FI transactions.
  • Transactions Originating Outside FI: Discusses configuration of account determinations for materials management and sales and distribution, using transaction codes like OBYC and VKOA.
  • Toolbox: Provides tips and tricks for analyzing account determinations using transaction codes like FBKP, OBL1 and S_ALR_87101048.

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SAP FI-AA Simplified: Asset Accounting Q&A for Beginners

This document provides a collection of 50 Question & Answers for key concepts and features of Asset Accounting (FI-AA) in SAP. Asset Accounting is a module within SAP’s Financial Accounting component used to manage and track fixed assets of a company.

After reading this document of Q&A set, you will learn:

  • Introduction to Asset Accounting and its role as a subsidiary ledger to General Ledger
  • Key components like Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas
  • Asset master data and asset transactions like acquisitions, transfers, retirements
  • Depreciation calculation using depreciation keys and posting of depreciation
  • Integration points with other modules like CO, MM, PM
  • Periodic processing tasks like depreciation posting
  • Reporting options like Asset History Sheet, simulations and Asset Explorer
  • Old asset data transfer during implementation
  • Steps for production startup of Asset Accounting

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SAP S/4HANA Financial Closing Cockpit: Thesis Approach

This document serves as a comprehensive thesis focused on the SAP S/4HANA Financial Closing Cockpit, presenting it as a solution for managing the complex process of financial close in companies. It highlights the challenges of the financial close operation, including the need for effective communication, detailed documentation, and task prioritization. The SAP Financial Closing Cockpit is introduced as a tool that aids companies in automating, overseeing, and managing the entire financial close process efficiently, aligning with best practices.

Unlike other configurations or key user documents shared on this site, this document is a thesis that adopts a unique approach to the SAP S/4HANA Financial Closing Cockpit tool.

Key content from the document are as:

  1. Introduction: Outlines the significance of the financial close process and its challenges.
  2. Definitions and Closing Work: Explains financial accounting concepts, the financial year, accounting periods, and details of the financial close process.
  3. SAP S/4HANA Financial Closing Cockpit: Discusses its role in financial accounting, including organizational levels, master data, components, and the financial close process within SAP S/4HANA.
  4. Financial Closing in a Company Case: Presents a practical case study of SAP Financial Closing Cockpit implementation.
  5. Conclusion: Summarizes the findings and implications of the thesis.

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Setting Up Scheduling Agreements in SAP MM

This document provides an overview of how to set up and use scheduling agreements with release documentation in SAP MM for forecast and just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedules. It covers creating the necessary master data, generating the different schedule types, and how creation profiles control schedule aggregation.

Key Sections from the document are:

  • Material master data setup with JIT indicator
  • Creation profiles for release documentation
  • Assigning creation profile to vendor master
  • Creating a scheduling agreement with release documentation
  • Generating forecast and JIT delivery schedules
  • How creation profile controls aggregation of forecast vs JIT schedules
  • Reviewing schedule release documents

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Material Staging in SAP ERP & EWM: Sample BBP Document

This document, serves as a BBP (Business Blueprint) or PDD (Process Design Document) structure, provides an overview of the material staging process during the goods issue process for production activities in SAP ERP & EWM. It outlines the organizational structure, master data, and integration between SAP ERP and SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) to enable optimized material flow from warehouse to production. A delivery-based integration approach is proposed.

Key sections covered in this sample BBP document are:

  • Organizational Structure – Defines company code, plants, storage locations, and warehouses
  • Master Data – Covers material master, bill of materials, and production supply area setup
  • Material Staging Process – Explains delivery-based integration, control cycles, staging, and goods issue
  • Process Flows – Details processes for production order, staging, goods issue, warehouse tasks, and postings

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Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) in SAP S/4HANA: Intro Presentation

This document provides an overview of Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) application in SAP S/4HANA, which replaces the previous SD Revenue Recognition functionality in ECC 6.0 to comply with new accounting standards like IFRS 15. The paper discusses how RAR addresses limitations of SD Revenue Recognition, explains how the new 5-step revenue recognition model works, summarizes setup and migration considerations, and outlines key benefits in areas like general ledger accounting, accounts receivable, and reporting.

Major sections covered in the document are:

  • Introduction to SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting in SAP S/4HANA
  • How RAR helps meet new IFRS 15 requirements
  • Industries impacted by the new standards
  • RAR features and methods for revenue recognition
  • RAR setup and migration considerations
  • Benefits in general ledger, accounts receivable, reporting

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