Excerpt from First Steps in SAP, second edition.

SAP offers journey maps for many of their newer product
offerings, including user experience and HANA. (more…)

Best-selling author of The SAP Material Master – a Practical Guide Matt Johnson shares two tips for SAP Materials Buyers including refining your MRP elements and subcontracting purchase orders. (more…)

Excerpt from The SAP HANA Project Guide by Ingo Brenckmann, Mathias Pöhling.

Creating a Business Case for SAP HANA
For the last couple of years, one of a CIO’s toughest challenges has been keeping their organization focused on running IT landscapes stably and efficiently enough to meet organizational demand in the face of frequent budget cuts.
Business leaders have commonly looked to outsourcing to IT providers and consolidating landscapes and virtualization of servers to address budget cuts, while trying to sustain the level of information services the organization demands. The era of IT as the innovation engine for the entire company seemed to be over when new technology concepts began to emerge. (more…)

Excerpt from First Steps in SAP® Production Processes (PP) by Björn Weber.

In this chapter I will present the basic planning approaches used in the SAP system. I will also present the most important planning strategies and outline the example used in subsequent chapters.
2.1 Planning Approaches
MRP II (manufacturing resource planning) is a planning concept that is a further development of material requirements planning (MRP). (more…)

Three quick tips from First Steps in SAP® Purchasing Processes (MM) by Claudia Jost.

1. Wildcard Search
   If you do not have the complete name of a vendor, or are not sure of exactly how it is written, you can use * as a wildcard. In this example, the search terms could be as follows:
   G.WIN*
   Or: *Winde*

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Meet Espresso Tutorials author Thomas Stutenbäumer. Thomas is the author of Practical Guide to SAP ABAP Part 1 and Part II (soon to be released). (more…)

Excerpt from Demand Planning with SAP APO – Concepts and Design by Avijit Dutta and Shreekant Shiralkar

SAP APO is the Advanced Planning and Optimization component of SAP SCM. The acronym APO stands for Advanced Planning and Optimization. SAP APO provides collaboration, planning, and optimization across the entire supply chain network. (more…)

Meet Espresso Tutorials author Tracy Juran. Tracy is the author of Beginner`s Guide to SAP Security and Authorizations.

How did you get your start with SAP?
I started with SAP right after college in a consulting training program at itelligence Inc. With my background in Supply Chain, the Production Planning module was an obvious fit and I began my career in that field.About 6 months later, I joined our company’s security practice and have never gone back! (more…)

Excerpt from new release Beginner`s Guide to SAP Security and Authorizations.

Introduction to SAP Security and Authorizations concept
SAP has a wide range of built-in functionality to meet various security requirements, including network protection, data protection, and SAP authorizations. This book will focus on the application of SAP authorizations and how user access can be limited by transaction codes, organizational levels, field values, etc. SAP Security and Authorizations is designed so that the system must explicitly indicate what each user can do. This is done by assigning authorization roles, which are groupings of
profiles comprised of authorizations. (more…)

Meet Espresso Tutorials author Michal Krawczyk. Michal is an SAP Mentor and the author of SAP SOA Integration – Enterprise Service Monitoring. (more…)

The Espresso Tutorials 2016 catalog is now available. (more…)

Starting April 1, 2016, Espresso Tutorials, the publishing company recognized for its concise SAP books, will enrich the practical learning content for Academy Cube’s training and talent platform. This platform, initiated by German technology companies, aims to counteract the lack of experts at the interface between business, production, and IT by providing targeted qualification opportunities.

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