ERP Database

Accounts Payable…What, How and Where it’s Used

February 13, 2018

The Accounts Payable department is responsible for entering invoices received from vendors and then paying those vendors. In SAP Accounts Payable, there are two...

Overview of Profitability Analysis

Finance (FI) January 27, 2018

Understanding Invoice Verification Process

Finance (FI) October 20, 2016

Depreciation Run

Finance (FI) May 25, 2016

Customer advance clearing

Finance (FI) February 21, 2016

CONTROLLING

Controlling (CO)

SAP Controlling FAQs – Variance Analysis

March 25, 2010

1. What is the purpose of variance analysis? Variance analysis is used to calculate and interpret differences between planned costs and actual cost within a...

SAP Controlling FAQs – Actual Posting and Allocations

Controlling (CO) March 24, 2010

SAP Controlling FAQs – Planning

Controlling (CO) March 23, 2010

SAP Controlling FAQs – Master Data

Controlling (CO) March 22, 2010

SAP Controlling FAQs – Organisation Structure

Controlling (CO) March 21, 2010

STAY CONNECTED

TIPS and TRICKS

Tips & Tricks

Disable “Import All” in STMS Queue

October 3, 2008

Login to your Transport Domain Controller. Run STMS --> Overview --> System Choose the system you want to disable "Import All" button. Goto transport tool...

Tips & Tricks

Transaction Code to Access Other Transaction Code with Values

August 6, 2009

Many times in SAP, you may come across situations where in the users wants to have a separate transaction codes for some of the...

ABAP

Modification Assistant

June 6, 2008

The Modification assistant is a tool used to simplify the upgrade process as it relates to modifications. The Modification assistant can be triggered through...

ABAP

Function Module Exit

May 30, 2008

Function Module exits exist in some SAP application programs to allow a customer to add some functionality to the SAP Program. Search the SAP...

FAQs

ABAP

Object Oriented ABAP (OOABAP) – FAQs

July 7, 2010

Here are some of the questions which you must know if you are good at object oriented programming in ABAP. 1. Priniples of oops? 2. What...

SAP Finance FAQs – Series 2

FAQs January 28, 2010

1. What are the two major areas within the SAP environment? Describe each. (1) Configuration - Maintenance of settings in the system to support...

SAP Finance FAQs – Series 1

FAQs January 27, 2010

1. What is the SAP Financial Accounting (FI) module? The SAP Financial Accounting (FI) Module provides integrated, on-line, real-time functionality for processing, recording and maintaining the...

INTEGRATION

Integration

Online Interface between Java and SAP

July 21, 2009

Procurement & Material Management System (MATS) is a custom solution based on J2EE framework implemented for a leading automotive manufacturing company for at all...

Integration of RosettaNet and SAP

Integration July 21, 2009

This study focuses on how RosettaNet can be used to integrate non-SAP partner and an SAP partner. Background information of SAP and RosettaNet is...

Internet Transaction Server (ITS)

Integration May 12, 2009

Internet Transaction Server (ITS) is the transaction processing system that connects the web HTTP server and the standard R/3 system. ITS is available since...

SALES & DISTRIBUTION

Contracts in Sales and Distribution

Sales and Distribution (SD) September 20, 2018

Contracts are agreements between your organization and the customer. The contract does not contain any schedule line, delivery quantity or delivery dates. It is...

Difference between Sales Area and Business Area

Sales and Distribution (SD) September 12, 2018

Sales area A sales area is a combination of the Sales organization, distribution channel, and division. It defines the distribution of a sales organization in...

Availability Check in Sales & Delivery

Sales and Distribution (SD) April 17, 2017

Availability check is one of the key functionality in sales document processing. The confirmation of Delivery Processing in SAP Sales and Distribution delivery of goods...

Sales and Operation Planning Process

Sales and Distribution (SD) November 2, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) is the process of aligning forecasts of customer demand with manufacturing capability.SOP is used for the annual planning processes...

Text Determination in Customer Master

Sales and Distribution (SD) October 13, 2016

Let us understand text determination in the customer master. Creating texts for customer master Customer – 3028(Account group – 0001) Transaction code – VD01 Click on to...

SAP Installation Manuals with Screenshots

September 9, 2009

Installation

Here is a collection of different SAP Installations manuals on SAP 4.7 to SAP ECC6 Upgrade, APO Installation, Installation of BW on solaris, mySAP...

MATERIAL MANAGEMENT

Plant Customization in SAP

October 3, 2018

The Plant is a location where the material is kept. It represents a production facility or material requirement planning in SAP system. In SD,...

Understanding Batch Management

Material Management March 3, 2017

The product produced according to the Recipe and in one homogenous mixture which can not be reproduced. It is mainly used in Food product...

Source List Determination Process

Material Management February 8, 2017

What is a Source List? The Source List identifies preferred sources of supply for certain materials. If the Source List has been properly maintained, it...

Understanding Invoice Verification Process

Finance (FI) October 20, 2016

The Invoice Verification component completes the material procurement process and allows credit memos to be processed. Invoice Verification includes entering invoices and credit memos...

PRODUCTION PLANNING

Production Planning (PP)

ERP Production Overview

January 2, 2018

With support for all product strategy for companies in the discrete process and consumer products industry, ERP helps companies manage the full range of...

Run MRP, Convert Planned order to Production Order, Settle Costs of Production Order

Production Planning (PP) June 14, 2014

Run the full Material requirements planning, and then display a planned order. In the next step you will convert the planned order to a...

Create and Display Routing

Production Planning (PP) June 14, 2014

Allow trading goods to be used in the production of finished goods. In addition, you will define a routing for your finished goods....

Create work center

Production Planning (PP) June 14, 2014

This is where you employees will work to assemble your finished goods. In this example, a day shift working from 8am to 5pm...

FUN CORNER

Fun Corner

Fun Tidbits in SAP Code

April 15, 2008

There is a lot of fun activity going on in SAPFans. Go to Include - LV61BMES and read line from 4 to 7. Go...

Fun Corner

Meaning of SAP

March 22, 2008

The "official" one is the german name of the company: "Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung", that is "Sytems, Applications, Products in data processing"....

Fun Corner

Very Funny SAP Jokes on SAP Software

November 27, 2007

Funny facts about SAP Software, these are some funny SAP jokes to make you giggle the least. SAP is such a great software that...

ERP

8 Step Strategy for Successful ERP Implementation

October 8, 2018

ERP

ERP Market Watch Report Based on Current Trends

September 29, 2018

ERP

A Brief history of ERP

June 2, 2018

LATEST ARTICLES

Material Determination

October 4, 2016

In SAP Sales and distribution When a product is under engineering change or there is a bug and you have another product, which is...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Free goods discount

September 29, 2016

Create free goods discount record Menu path: as below Click Click Minimum qty – Quantity equal or above which free goods discount will apply Minimum quantity...

Creating Customer Master

September 22, 2016

Customers need to be created with master data as required for sales order processing so that products can be delivered to the customer at...

Determine Routes in Sales Order

September 14, 2016

The route in SAP means the path the material takes to move from company dispatch point to customer unloading point. Routes in system determine...

Third party processing in Sales Order

September 12, 2016

Let us create a sales order Press ”enter” key on the keyboard. Change item category from TAN to TAS (Third party item) TAS is allowed to change...

Automatic FI Postings at Goods Receipt

September 7, 2016

What is Automatic Posting? When you post documents in SAP, there are instances where the system also adds some more line items (such as tax,...

Material valuation by Company and Plant

June 21, 2016

The valuation area is the organizational level at which the material is valuated. Plant and company code are two possible valuation areas in the...

Depreciation Run

May 25, 2016

The following steps are needed to maintain multiple shift depreciation: The variable depreciation portion as a percentage rate is to be maintained in the...

Customer advance clearing

February 21, 2016

Transaction code: F-39 Open the customer advance clearing screen either by typing the T code F-39 mentioned above or through the drill down menu as...

Asset Purchase and Sales in Finance

December 24, 2015

Asset Purchase "F-90" Asset Sold "F-92" Enter (Follwing screen will appear)

Quality Management

Creating QM view in Material Master

November 20, 2015

The material type selected controls the views possible for material. For a material to be used in the system it needs to be created...

Mass change of inspection data for materials

November 13, 2015

The function mass change of inspection data allows to change inspection data for several (all) plants or for a predefined section of master data....

Quality Management

Sample Management using Sampling Procedure

November 12, 2015

If sampling procedures and optional dynamic modification rules are in use, the system is able to adjust the inspection scope to the quality level....

SAP General

Working with Selection sets instead of Code Groups

November 10, 2015

A code group (client level) can have many different entries. A number of 100 codes may be possible. To reduce the number or to...

Quality Management

Code Groups in Quality Management

November 10, 2015

A catalog allows an exact definition of inspection results, observations, tasks or decisions, since perceptions, not rated by numbers, is usually rated differently by...

Clearing of vendor advance

November 9, 2015

Transaction Code: F-54 After posting vendor advance, Let's see the tutorial to clear the vendor advance.Open the Vendor advance clearing screen either by typing the...

Posting of vendor Invoice

October 2, 2015

Transaction code: FB60 In this transaction vendor invoice is posted without reference to purchase order. Enter the following details as shown below: Vendor number Invoice date ...

Posting of vendor advance

October 2, 2015

Transaction code: F-48 Open the vendor advance posting screen either by typing the T code and navigate above or through the drill down menu as...

Change accounting document using FB02

April 8, 2015

Transaction code: FB02 Open the accounting document change screen either by typing the T code mentioned above or through the drill down menu as shown...