Procurement & Material Management System (MATS) is a custom solution based on J2EE framework implemented for a leading automotive  manufacturing company for at all its plants to
improve the efficiency of its purchasing and material management processes. A rich GUI combined with easy to use functionalities are provided for its users from Production, Warehouse, Accounting and Purchasing departments.

MATS system supports Warehouse with functionality grouped under modules such as Forecast, Procurement, Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Invoice Verification, Physical Count and Master Data and for Purchasing it supports with Sourcing module and for Accounting/Cost control department, it supports with consolidated Reports on all the transactions. The accounting department creates annual budgets by cost center in SAP and wants to track & control expenses in a real-time manner. As a result, customer wanted a real-time interface between MATS and SAP to support below key business requirements leading to an efficient control of expenses

• Support real-time budget control : Provide a real-time budget control functionality from MATS application with the budget information residing in SAP and budget being shared by multiple systems. Support real-time budget control activities such as Check budget, Reserve budget, Release budget reservation, Update budget and Consume budget.
• Support real-time accounting postings : Provide ability for MATS to do General Ledger(GL) or Accounts Payable(AP) posting on specific expense account codes for all transactions in MATS such as Goods Receipt (GR), Goods Issue (GI), Invoice Confirmation (INV), Credit Note (CN), Debit Note (DN), Retroactive CN(RCN), Retroactive DN(RDN), Cancel Operation for all above objects, Physical stock adjustment
• Support Physical count reconciliation: Provide volume update of records from MATS to SAP for materials that have difference in stock count during annual cycle count process

This whitepaper provides you with the solution for the above requirement. Download the whitepaper here (652).

This document contains an assortment of general recommendations, performance tips, debugging tricks and solutions to specific client programming challenges that should be of value to all JCo Developers.

Learn about Data type mapping and conversions, using the Request/Response programming model, Use of Repository, Using connection Pools, Use Properties for conneciton information, Improving system performance, use of proper exception handling, working with HTML to help with debugging and about debugging ABAP Code.

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Agenda:

• Getting started with MDM Java API
• Changes in the Java API for SP02
• MDM Java Connector
• Demonstration: Integrating MDM Client & J2EE Application

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In this Foundations book, we will be looking at the standard J2EE and the new Java EE 5. You will find it easy to use the SAP-specific APIs once you have mastered the standard version. Rest assured, though, that I will explain everything from an ABAP programmer’s point of view. I will also show you the NetWeaver way where appropriate.

So, in 2001, one of the most innovative ERP companies, SAP, saw an opportunity to bring Java into its development environment. SAP has said that Java and ABAP will coexist as development languages. With Web Application Server (WAS) 6.40, we have seen this become a reality. Although there is still room for improvement (isn’t there always?) we now have a credible SAP platform for delivering web services.
Make no mistake—SAP is very serious about Java. It is not a passing fancy or an attempt to be fashionable. When I first lectured about Java to ABAP programmers in Europe in late 2002, SAP already had 35 internal projects using and developing Java. SAP has developed a “flavor” of J2EE to fit inside WAS.

Contains :

• Similarities Between Java and ABAP
• ABAP Special Features

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