Third Edition: Thoroughly Updated and Expanded, with Extensive New Coverage!
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll master the entire SAP project lifecycle, from planning through implementation and system administration through day-to-day operations. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll gain a strong real-world foundation in both the technology and business essentials of today’s SAP products and applications—from the ground up.
Step-by-step instructions walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks you’ll encounter with SAP.
Case study-based exercises help you build and test your knowledge.
By the Way notes present interesting pieces of information.
Did You Know? tips offer advice or teach an easier way.
Watch Out! cautions warn about potential problems.
Learn how to…
Understand SAP’s newest products for enterprises and small-to-midsize businesses, and choose the right solutions for your company
Discover how SAP integrates with Web services and service-oriented architecture
Develop an efficient roadmap for deploying SAP in your environment
Plan your SAP implementation from business, functional, technical, and project management perspectives
Leverage NetWeaver 7.0 features to streamline development and integration, and reduce cost
Walk through a step-by-step SAP technical installation
Master basic SAP system administration and operations
Perform essential tasks such as logon, session management, and printing
Build SAP queries and reports
Prepare for SAP upgrades and enhancements
Develop your own personal career as an SAP professional
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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
Your Hands-On Guide to SAP Business Information Warehouse
Give your company the competitive edge by delivering up-to-date, pertinent business reports to users inside and outside your enterprise. SAP Business Information Warehouse Reporting shows you how to construct Enterprise Data Warehouses, create workbooks and queries, analyze and format results, and supply meaningful reports. Learn how to use the BEx and Web Analyzers, Web Application Designer, Visual Composer, and Information Broadcaster. You will also find out how to forecast future business trends, build enterprise portals and websites, and tune performance.
Group data into InfoCubes and DataStore Objects and generate reports using queries and workbooks
Work with the BEx Analyzer, Web Analyzer, and Query Designer
Build queries and reports using the Business Administration Workbench
Add attachments and drill-through using Document Integration and RRI
Format and distribute results using Report Designer and Information Broadcaster
Extend functionality with Enterprise Portal, Data Modeling, and Visual Composer
Deploy charts, maps, diagrams, and unit of measure conversions
Predict trends and possible outcomes using SBC and Integrated Planning
Generate HTML pages using Enterprise Reporting and Web Application Designer
Create BI-based corporate Web and intranet sites using SAP Enterprise Portal
About this product: Find out how to get the very most from your SAP MM implementation with this completely updated, comprehensive guide to SAP Materials Management (MM). Based on SAP ERP 6.0, this new edition of our bestseller provides you with a thorough understanding of how MM works and integrates seamlessly with your other SAP components.
All of the important new aspects related to SAP ERP 6.0 are covered in detail, along with essential insights on Material Master Data, Purchasing, and Inventory Management. Crucial 'touchpoints' with other components, such as PP, SD, QM, and FI are covered as well. And, a number of cross-application issues, such as document management, batch management, and classification are explained in detail.
In addition, you'll learn how MM can enhance your own expertise, and find out how to make software application decisions by exploring the functionality and technical configuration issues that must be considered.
By reading this book, you'll understand the entire breadth of SAP MM, while you boost your skills and abilities to leverage MM functionalities in your daily work.
About this product: SAP R/3 for Everyone is the nontechnical user's guide to working with SAP R/3, the leading business enterprise software product in the world. Written and road-tested by experienced SAP R/3 users and trainers, this book saves typical SAP R/3 users time and trouble by providing them with the universal skills needed to work with any module of this complex software. SAP R/3 can be used effectively by anyone who can perform a handful of simple procedures that are employed in nearly every SAP R/3 transaction. The authors explain these procedures in plain English, using illustrations and real-world examples.After a brief explanation of the architecture and operation of SAP R/3, readers get step-by-step instruction in *Logging on and off, managing passwords, and customizing the SAP application window and screens*Navigating between screens with menu folders, transaction codes, and the menu bar*Setting up customized favorites folders with quick links to the initial screens of transactions and other useful resources*Understanding the four basic transaction types*Working on initial screens, including tips and techniques for entering codes, searching for codes, customizing initial screens, and using multiple selection screens and selection options*Customizing output reports with filters, sorts, sums, and display variants*Exporting output reports to Microsoft Excel and Word and e-mailing output reports to other SAP users Practical and jargon-free, SAP R/3 for Everyone provides readers with the skills and confidence they need to efficiently conduct any business activity with SAP R/3.
Centralize and Control Enterprise Project Management
Plan, execute, and track projects across the entire lifecycle using SAP Project System (PS) and the in-depth information contained in this comprehensive volume. SAP Project System Handbook explains how to configure PS for optimal performance, design structures and networks, create project blueprints, generate cost estimates and materials demands, and use the latest SAP tools. You will find full details on scheduling work, automating and tracking billing and POs, triggering events, and integrating with most other SAP modules. An invaluable reference to PS transaction codes is also included.
Configure and customize SAP Project System
Build PS objects, networks, and Work Breakdown Structures
Use customer and service projects to track sales and billing
Understand Assembly Processing concepts
Create integrated cost, settlement, and resource plans
Develop financial, workforce, and materials management blueprints
Perform resource-related billing using Dynamic Item Processor Profiles
Simulate and automatically generate sales documents, POs, and quotations
Manage corporate investments with IM structures and AUCs
Construct timesaving Project, Network, and Milestone Templates
Extend functionality with the Project Builder, Planning Board, and ProMan
About this product: SAP is the world leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software; of the softwares modules, the FI (Finance) and CO (Controlling) are by far the most popular and are widely implemented. This book has no competitionit is the only book on the market on how to configure and implement SAPs FI and CO modules to maximize functionality and features hands-on, step-by-step instructions and real-world examples that provide immediate and practical solutions. Updated for SAPs ECC 6.0, the book covers FI enterprise structure, general ledger, substitutions and validations, automatic account assignments, accounts payable and receivable, asset accounting, accrual engine, closing entries, credit management, lockbox, CO enterprise structure, profitability analysis (CO-PA), and more.
SAP can help you capture better information and deliver it more quickly, allowing you to make better decisions and maximize the business value of everything you do. However, SAP implementations require massive effort, total buy-in, and significant change throughout the organization. In SAP Implementation Unleashed, 10 expert SAP project managers, functional consultants, and technologists guide you through the entire journey, helping you avoid pain and pitfalls and gain all the benefits of SAP.
The authors introduce start-to-finish business, technical, and project management roadmaps for successful SAP implementation. Then, drawing on their immense experience, they walk you through the entire process of planning and deployment—addressing make-or-break issues and hidden gaps that other guidebooks ignore. You’ll discover how to employ processes, models, and toolsets that help you achieve implementation excellence while systematically reducing cost and business risk. Along the way, you’ll find actionable advice and real-world insight into innovative project management, best-suited leadership, effective load testing, contemporary infrastructure implementation, and more.
George W. Anderson is responsible for providing enterprise applications thought leadership for the EDS/HP office of the CTO. A long-time SAP consultant and PMI-certified project manager, George has authored several best-selling books and enjoys new challenges.
Charles D. Nilson is a senior program manager for EDS/HP and has led many successful SAP implementation teams over the years. He is a PMI PMP and is SAP Partner Academy certified in MM and PP.
Tim Rhodes is a senior SAP technical consultant for EDS/HP and a Basis/infrastructure veteran focused on implementing, migrating, and upgrading SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver solutions. Tim is also an SAP-certified technical consultant, OCP, MCSE, and HP Master ASE.
Detailed Information on How To...
Define the business vision driving your implementation, and use it to design your solution
Use TCO techniques to fully understand SAP’s financial impact in your organization
Structure your SAP project management office, business teams, technical support organization, and overall project team
Size, plan, and test your SAP infrastructure to deliver the best performance and availability at the best cost
Integrate SAP into an SOA environment
Install and configure SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver components
Perform basic functional configuration, testing, and change management activities
Enable a smooth transition by successfully performing the critical tasks that immediately precede
SAP Go-Live
Choose the right mix of tools and applications to test, manage, and monitor SAP
Prepare your SAP Operations team for its post-implementation responsibilities
About this product: Throughout the world, high-profile large organizations (aerospace and defense, automotive, banking, chemicals, financial service providers, healthcare, high tech, insurance, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, retail, telecommunications, and utilities) and governments are using SAP software to process their most mission-critical, highly sensitive data. With more than 100,000 installations, SAP is the world's largest enterprise software company and the world's third largest independent software supplier overall.
Despite this widespread use, there have been very few books written on SAP implementation and security, despite a great deal of interest. (There are 220,000 members in an on-line SAP 'community' seeking information, ideas and tools on the IT Toolbox Website alone.) Managing SAP user authentication and authorizations is becoming more complex than ever, as there are more and more SAP products involved that have very different access issues. It's a complex area that requires focused expertise.
This book is designed for these network and systems administrator who deal with the complexity of having to make judgmental decisions regarding enormously complicated and technical data in the SAP landscape, as well as pay attention to new compliance rules and security regulations.
Most SAP users experience significant challenges when trying to manage and mitigate the risks in existing or new security solutions and usually end up facing repetitive, expensive re-work and perpetuated compliance challenges. This book is designed to help them properly and efficiently manage these challenges on an ongoing basis. It aims to remove the 'Black Box' mystique that surrounds SAP security.
* The most comprehensive coverage of the essentials of SAP security currently available: risk and control management, identity and access management, data protection and privacy, corporate governance, legal and regulatory compliance.
* This book contains information about SAP security that is not available anywhere else to help the reader avoid the "gotchas" that may leave them vulnerable during times of upgrade or other system changes
*Companion Web site provides custom SAP scripts, which readers can download to install, configure and troubleshoot SAP.
About this product: SAP Query Reporting is everything an SAP user needs to know to create your own reports in SAP using Query tools, no programming required! Designed as a hands-on learning aid, you will be able to follow along and perform each new skill learned on your own SAP system. The book's tutorial style, step-by-step instruction will teach you everything you need to know to use the SAP Query tools, including its configuration, advanced usage, and integration to Microsoft. Additionally the book gives best business practice recommendations for the technology and internal business use of the tools. Learn to:
Understand query security, table reads, and table joins
Perform basic and advanced calculations
Incorporate pictures and graphics into reports
Configure shortcuts and tran codes, schedule jobs and email PDFs
Utilize SAP Reporting with Microsoft Office applications
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