The Process of Capacity Management
Capacity management and its functions for planning, sequencing, leveling and scheduling orders, represent an important step in the chain of events for the lean, agile and efficient provision of a detailed production program. Without capacity planning, we fail to consider reality in our efforts to produce as close as possible to customer demand.
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Accounting standards are changing! Get up to speed and dive into the fundamentals of SAP Revenue Accounting in the latest Espresso Tutorials release Practical Guide to SAP FI-RA by M. Larry McKinney, Reinhard Müller, Frank Rothhaas. (more…)

What is SAP S/4HANA? 
S/4 HANA is the next-generation SAP business suite (short for SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA), similar to the transition between R/2 and R/3. It is built on SAP HANA, with modern design principles and user interfaces. It also offers tremendous simplifications and innovations. With
the massive technology improvements provided by HANA, the business suite can now combine many tools and tables that had to be maintained separately in the past. For example, in the past, integration among different systems (e. g., ERP, CRM, SCM) had to be done by replicating data between several systems. Now, they can now all run quickly and easily on the same database. This can help drastically improve an organization’s data footprint. (more…)

In this excerpt from Espresso Tutorials Virtual Book Club Meeting: Practical Guide to SAP GTS transcript, SAP GTS best-selling authors and experts Rajen Iyer and Kevin Riddell share a practical SAP GTS tip.  

Rajen Iyer: I have several, but I think I’ll pick two which I guess are a little bit more technical. One thing we’ve found is a solution and implementation. People look at it, you know … It starts with more of IT, but then we reach out to the business. I would look at this more from a business perspective. What I mean by that is, is look at your processes, what you’re doing today, and you need to look at it from the basic fundamental of do you have the basics that are available in terms of how you’re managing your trade process, your classification, your key division with your logistics and supply chain, and make those decisions, before you start into this whole journey. That’s really key. If you have done that, your software implementation, or GTS trade implementation becomes smoother and easier. (more…)

Excerpt from The Essential SAP Career Guide – Hitting the Ground Running by Tanya Duncan.

SAP functionality must move through the system landscape, including development and quality systems before reaching production. (more…)

We are pleased to announce our latest book release, the 2nd edition of The SAP Material Master – A Practical Guide by Matthew Johnson. Dive into the updated best-selling guide on SAP Material Master! The updated second edition incorporates feedback from first-edition readers and solution updates, along with a new section on subcontracting.
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In this excerpt from Espresso Tutorials Virtual Book Club Meeting: What on Earth is an SAP IDoc? author Jelena Perfiljeva shares a few SAP IDoc quick tips.

The first tip, I didn’t even know about until I started working on my book. There is a very helpful button that is called object for services. That allows you to navigate between the IDoc and the document that is associated with it. I knew about this relationship before from the document to the IDoc.

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Excerpt from First Steps in SAP Fiori by Anurag Barua – what ails traditional SAP user interfaces?

Initially, I wanted to call this chapter “What ails SAP GUI?” because SAP GUI is synonymous with SAP user interfaces. SAP GUI is used by millions of users spanning companies of all sizes, straddling all kinds of industries, and across all continents. It is therefore one of the most widely used and recognized user interfaces in the world. There are others, such as Web GUI, NetWeaver Business Client, etc. However, these other technologies generally fall within the “Plan B” or “Plan C” realm and SAP GUI is considered the default interface.
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We are pleased to announce our latest book release First Steps in SAP Fiori by Anurag Barua.

Are you wondering what SAP Fiori is all about? Dive into SAP’s new user interface and gain an understanding of core SAP Fiori concepts and get quickly up to speed SAP Fiori functionality, architecture, prerequisites, and technical components.
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Recently Espresso Tutorials readers gathered for a Virtual Book Club Meeting with author Bert Vanstechelman to discuss The SAP HANA Deployment Guide.

Listen to this recorded discussion and learn more about the book, as well as tip on SAP HANA deployment.

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The SAP Controlling 2017 conference September 18-21, 2017 in San Diego, CA features a number of prominent Espresso Tutorials book authors on the speaker roster. Learn more about the authors and their conference sessions. (more…)

Curious which 5 books were the most read in the Espresso Tutorials SAP eBook Library so far in 2017? Keep reading to find out!

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