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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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Streamlining Bank Account Management with SAP S/4HANA Workflow

This document provides an overview of how to leverage workflow functionality in SAP S/4HANA Finance for Bank Account Management (BAM). It introduces the standard workflows available for streamlining bank account opening, modification, and closing processes. Key configuration steps are covered to enable the workflows. A detailed example illustrates the workflow process flow for opening a new bank account.

Key topics covered in the document:

  • Overview of standard SAP workflows for bank account management
  • Configuration steps to activate bank account management workflows
  • Assigning responsibilities to workflow rules
  • Activating ICF services for Fiori apps
  • Process flow for opening a new bank account
  • Steps for bank accountant, cash manager, G/L accountant, and key user
  • Usage of relevant Fiori apps for workflow tasks
  • Approval history showing audit trail of workflow steps

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Understanding Organizational Structure in SAP: Detailed Guide

This document provides an overview of organizational structure considerations for an SAP implementation. It introduces the concept of an organizational structure in SAP and explains how it defines data relationships and transactions within the system. The document outlines both simple and complex organizational structure options and provides guidance on deciding between them based on factors like industry dynamics, processes, and reporting requirements. It also discusses how organizational structure impacts master data maintenance, reporting, and transactions.

  • SAP Organizational Structure Overview: Defines organizational structure and its importance in SAP.
  • Organizational Structure Defined: Explains key SAP organizational elements like client, company code, controlling area, sales organization etc. and their relationships.
  • Organizational Structure Options: Contrasts simple vs. complex organizational structure and factors driving the decision.
  • Reporting Implications: Discusses impact of organizational structure on reporting flexibility and requirements.
  • Master Data Implications: Explains how organizational structure affects master data maintenance.
  • Organizational Structure Decision Tree: Provides decision tree for determining organizational structure based on business needs.

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SAP PM Presentation Sample for Oil&Gas Industry

This ppt presentation, prepared for Oil&Gas Industry company, provides an overview of SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), an integrated module within the SAP ERP system for managing maintenance operations. The document covers SAP PM functionality including master data, work order management, preventive maintenance, and integration with materials management and financial accounting.

List of presentation topics covered for SAP Plant Maintenance module are:

  • SAP PM Overview: Outlines the benefits of SAP PM such as industry best practices, integration, improved information quality, and reduced document flow.
  • Master Data: Discusses key PM master data objects like functional locations, equipment, bill of materials, work centers, classifications, characteristics, and measuring points. These define the maintenance objects and attributes.
  • Work Order Management: Explains the processes for creating notifications and work orders, planning, scheduling, executing, settling costs, and reporting on maintenance activities.
  • Preventive Maintenance: Describes setting up maintenance strategies, plans, and items to schedule and perform preventive maintenance.
  • Integration: Highlights integration of PM with Materials Management for material requirements planning and procurement and with Finance for capturing actual costs.

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SAP S/4HANA QM Configuration Guide [80 Pages PDF]

This document serves as a comprehensive configuration guide for SAP S/4HANA Quality Management (QM). Quality Management in SAP encompasses all processes to manage and control the quality of materials and processes, from procurement to production and sales. The guide details the necessary steps to set up and customize the QM module, ensuring proper integration with other SAP modules and effective quality control throughout the supply chain.

Key Topics/Steps Covered:

  1. Basic Settings: Configures fundamental QM settings at the client and plant levels, which are essential for controlling various QM functionalities.
  2. QM in Logistics: Defines control keys for procurement, certificate processing, number ranges for certificate receipts, and delivery blocks. These settings manage quality requirements within the procurement process.
  3. Quality Planning: Covers the configuration of defect classes, catalog types, code groups, codes, and selected sets for defining and categorizing quality-related issues and data.
  4. Inspection Characteristics: This section details the setup of default values for control indicators, characteristic weights, number ranges, and sample determination for inspections which are the basis of all inspection planning.
  5. Inspection Planning: Addresses the assignment of task lists to material types, task list usages, status, planner groups, default value profiles, parameters, number ranges, inspection points and control keys for inspection operations in order to perform inspection lot.
  6. Quality Inspection: Configures inspection types, inspection lot origins, number ranges, default values, goods movement inspections, manufacturing order inspections, confirmation parameters, and plant maintenance inspections. It provides all configuration that has to be set in order to perform quality inspections.
  7. Quality Notification: Establishes notification types, catalogs, catalog profiles, and the linkage between catalog profiles and notification types, which allows recording quality issues with specific characteristics.

This configuration guide provides a systematic approach to setting up the SAP QM module. By following the outlined steps, businesses can effectively manage and maintain quality throughout their operations, ensuring consistency and compliance.

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SAP S/4HANA PP Basics Configuration Guide

This document, prepared by Akshay Kulkarni, provides basic configuration requirements of SAP PP module starting from master data setup to order execution and integration touchpoints. Major topics covered in the document are;

  • BOM and routing master data configuration
  • Work center and resources configuration
  • Material master and MRP parameters definition
  • Production order types and integration points
  • Planning runs like MRP and scheduling
  • Production order creation, scheduling and costing
  • Confirmations, valuations and settlements

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SAP S/4HANA SD End User Training Manual

This end user training manual provides instructions for key sales and distribution processes in SAP. The manual covers creating customer master records, pre-sales order processing for export, local commercial, and local institutional sales, sales reversal/diversion procedures, and accessing reports.

The key transactions covered in the manual are:

  • Creating Customer Master Records – instructions for setting up new customer master data in SAP using BP transaction code.
  • Pre-Sales Order Processing – detailed steps for export sales (quotation, contract, sales order, delivery, billing), local commercial sales (contract, delivery, shipment, billing), and local institutional sales (contract, delivery, shipment, billing)
  • Sales Reversal/Diversion Procedure – steps to cancel invoice, reverse goods movement, and close sales order in case of refusal to receive goods
  • Reports – accessing standard SAP reports for sales and distribution

The manual provides end users with detailed, step-by-step guidance on executing essential SAP SD transactions and processes. It covers the order-to-cash cycle for different sales scenarios. The instructions allow users to efficiently create customer masters, process sales orders, deliveries, shipments, and billing documents in the SAP system.

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