SAP HANA Advanced Modeling by Dominique Alfermann, Benedikt Engel, and Stefan Hartmann introduces you to advanced modeling techniques based on actual project experience as well as field tests. Our aim is to provide clear modeling recommendations for setting up data models, optimizing performance, using the SAP HANA modeler and development perspective, as well as efficiently solving complex requirements in SAP HANA. (more…)

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Excerpt from Practical Guide to SAP Material Ledger by Rosana Fonseca.

John wishes to control the procurement and inventory quantity of his shop floor aides such as rags and working gloves. However, he does not want the expense of those items to be included in the cost of goods sold, nor does he wish to maintain cost estimates or accounting data for those items.

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Explore 3 quick tips from Practical Guide to SAP® CO-PC (Product Cost Controlling) by Tanya Duncan.

Tip 1:
The difference between CK11N and CK40N
Costing in CK11N is different from costing in CK40N because component materials are not given a cost along with the specified produced material. (more…)

Recently Espresso Tutorials readers gathered for a Virtual Book Club Meeting: SAP ERP User Guide – Tips to Increase Productivity  with author Sydnie McConnell.

Listen to this recorded discussion and get tips to help you to work with SAP ERP more efficiently and effectively including parameters, selection variants, and working in multiple systems.

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Three quick tips from Reporting for SAP Asset Accounting by Thomas Michael, CEO of Michael Management.

Alternative Transaction to Run Reports

If you do not have authorization to run transaction SE38, alternatively, you can use transaction SA38.
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Excerpt From Electronic Bank Statement & Lockbox in SAP ERP

Lockbox vs. Electronic Bank Statement
How is the lockbox file different from the electronic bank statement file? The lockbox file contains the remittance information the customers have sent to the bank, for example amount and number by invoice. (more…)

With SAP-HANA, scalability is translated to scale-up and scale-out.
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There are many ways to move an existing SAP BW system on a traditional database to SAP BW on HANA, but there are really only two major strategies which most companies consider: New implementation (greenfield) and database migration. (more…)

Free Book Excerpt: Introduction to Reconciling SAP CO-PA to the General Ledger by Paul Ovigele

Costing-based CO-PA is the form of CO-PA that groups costs and revenues into value fields. The groupings of these cost and revenue items into value fields can be accomplished in a variety of ways depending on the source of the data.
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Excerpt from Demand Planning with SAP APO – Execution by Shreekant Shiralkar and Avijit Dutta.

Release and transfer of demand plan
Demand planning is the trigger for supply planning and production planning. This is possible when we make the demand plan available to supply planners and demand planners; after verifying the appropriate release and transfer of the demand plan to the supply system and production system respectively. In this chapter, we will introduce various mass processing and verification methods for carrying out independent consensus demand plan release and transfer to their target system. Once it is successfully released, transferred, and verified, we allow the next planning activities to take place
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Excerpt from Demand Planning with SAP APO – Concepts and Design by Shreekant Shiralkar and Avijit Dutta.

Key figures
Key figures constitute one of the main building blocks for the planning area as demand planning revolves around them. Key figures represent the parameters that have numerical values.

Examples of key figures are: sales history, sales forecast, revenue, etc. (more…)