About this product: This comprehensive SAP Financials guide deals with the most important issues related to design and configuration and provides readers with a real-world, holistic business approach to SAP Financials. Coverage includes everything from understanding SAP Financials and its place in the SAP landscape, to learning how the General Ledger can work for you. In addition, this long awaited book also explores Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, and offers expert advice on integrating Financials with other modules.
About this product: Learn how best to implement the New General Ledger in SAP ERP Financials and how to maximize your organization's use of its vast functionalities. Using practical examples, the authors take you on a guided tour of the most important functions. First, you'll learn how to create the settings needed to define your ledgers. Then, you'll uncover sample solutions and customization tips for segment reporting and document splitting, as the authors show you the process of mapping a parallel accounting procedure using the ledger approach. A detailed chapter on migration answers burning questions such as: What tools are available? What issues should we be thinking about before migration? What levels of complexity should be weighed? How does the migration process really work? In short, this detailed reference provides you with everything you'll need to successfully migrate to New General Ledger. Based on the latest release, SAP ERP 6.0, this book is fully up-to-date as of the date of its publication. Highlights Include: Design and Features of the Ledgers Integration in Financial Accounting - Profit Center Accounting, Reposting in Controlling, Online Posting of Follow-Up Costs, Period-End Closing Parallel Valuation - Basic Principles, Fixed Assets, Current Assets, Provisions Document Splitting - Active and Passive Split, Special G/L Transactions, Periodic Processing Migration - Activating New G/L, Migration Phase Model, SAP Service for Migration, Migration Scenarios, Migration Cockpit, Practical Reports
Bridging the theory and realities of current ERP systems, Maximizing Your ERP System provides practical guidance for managing manufacturing. Illustrated with case studies from the author's firsthand experience in consulting to more than 1,000 firms, it covers common problems and working solutions across all types of environments as it offers contingency-based approaches for how to effectively implement and use ERP systems. The book particularly addresses the issues facing smaller manufacturers and autonomous plants of larger firms.
About this product: Is Your Company Getting the Most from Its Investment in Change?
Many companies have already invested heavily in infrastructure change, some are making that investment now, and all are contemplating the costs of becoming or evolving as an e-business. Is your company a "greenfield" organization with no back-end systems, or one whose infrastructure support systems are integrated across the enterprise? Are you just beginning to think about e-business capabilities, or are you on the leading edge of convergence? Whatever your company's position on the ERP/E-Business Matrix, E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise provides the proven techniques you need to know to meld enterprise resource planning capabilities with the communications power of the Internet.
Is Your Company Positioned for E-Business Success?
The Internet has revolutionized twenty-first century business. Organizations today can communicate with customers, suppliers, and sellers at e-speed with the click of a mouse. Yet, with all of the excitement about the external possibilities of the Internet, companies still need efficient internal processes to make and move products, manage finances, recruit and motivate employees, and excel.
E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise covers the skills and tools you will need to combine existing ERP software and capabilities with emerging Web-based technologies. In this forward-thinking outline for a new business structure, executives and managers will discover: * Strategies for established companies to penetrate the Internet marketplace * Procedures that lower costs across the supply and demand chain * Techniques that help you meet-and master-the dot.com challenge
The companies best positioned to succeed in the near future are those that can balance existing ERP-based infrastructures and capabilities with exciting new e-business innovations. E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise examines the changing but essential role of ERP, places it in the context of the Web-based technologies defining today's e-business environment, and reveals how to blend the best aspects of both to create a strong and flexible twenty-first century business enterprise.
About this product: What is Enterprise Resource Planning and why does it matter? Like The Goal, Why ERP? is a short novel about a manager in a furniture manufacturing business who is charged with learning about and implementing a new ERP system, SAP R/3. The story tells of his experience and provides a non-technical, non-programming introduction to the basic concepts and architecture of ERP systems.
SAP is the world's leading provider of ERP software and services, with worldwide revenue in 2004 of $9.7 billion and a 57 percent market share among major business application providers; it is one of the world's largest software companies overall
ERP is a flexible, open technology platform that helps businesses run more efficiently (and profitably) by providing integrated management of key operations and supply chains
Written for IT professionals who find it hard to get through SAP's complex documentation, our book demonstrates how ERP can cut costs, provides a clear overview of how the ESA (enterprise service architecture) model affects ERP, and shows how to implement the new ERP in the real world
Topics covered include reducing the cost of an existing IT backbone, using the new ERP to address a company's "pain points" and challenges, and proving the value of ERP through ROI (return on investment) and TCO (total cost of ownership) studies
Your Hands-On Guide to SAP ERP Sales & Distribution
Written by senior SAP consultant Glynn Williams, Implementing SAP ERP Sales & Distribution is packed with tested, time-saving tips and advice. Learn how to use SAP ERP Central Component 5.0 and 6.0 to create sales documents and contracts, control material and customer master data, schedule deliveries, and automate billing. You'll also find out how to deliver robust financial and transactional reports, track customer and credit information, and interoperate with other SAP modules.
Configure and manage the SAP ERP SD module
Track sales, shipping, and payment status using master records
Create multi-level sales documents and item proposals
Develop contracts and rebate agreements
Deliver materials and services requirements to the supply chain
Plan deliveries, routes, and packaging using Logistics Execution
Perform resource-related, collective, and self billing
Generate pricing reports, incompletion logs, and hierarchies
Handle credit limits, payment guarantees, and customer blocks
Integrate user exits, third-party add-ons, and data sharing
Configure pricing procedures and complex pricing condition types
About this product: * SAP is investing billions to redesign its flagship R/3 product line based on its ESA, and that ESA will become the standard framework for developing all new SAP ERP applications with NetWeaver * This book provides an overview of the core building blocks of SAP's new ESA, and shows how ESA works with the NetWeaver platform as well as mySAP ERP * A step-by-step action plan proposes ideas for designing ESA-based SAP applications * The companion Web site contains in-depth case examples that show how to build various SAP services and applications using the NetWeaver development tools, plus third-party tools * Some of the SAP tools covered include NetWeaver Developer Studio, WebDynPro and NetWeaver Portal, NetWeaver BI, and the SAP Composite Application Framework
About this product: Follow the "Proven Path" to successful implementation of enterprise resource planning
Effective forecasting, planning, and scheduling is fundamental to productivity-and ERP is a fundamental way to achieve it. Properly implementing ERP will give you a competitive advantage and help you run your business more effectively, efficiently, and responsively. This guide is structured to support all the people involved in ERP implementation-from the CEO and others in the executive suite to the people doing the detailed implementation work in sales, marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, logistics, finance, and elsewhere.
This book is not primarily about computers and software. Rather, its focus is on people-and how to provide them with superior decision-making processes for customer order fulfillment, supply chain management, financial planning, e-commerce, asset management, and more. This comprehensive guide can be used as a selective reference for those, like top management, who need only specific pieces of information, or as a virtual checklist for those who can use detailed guidance every step of the way.
About this product: This practical reference book, perfect for Microsoft Business Solution partners, will take you through the testing lifecycle of Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP solutions, including testing compliance to the Industry Builder Initiative (IBI) standard for ERP software.
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