Tip on using the toolbar to find data in lists by Matt Johnson, author of The SAP Material Master – a Practical Guide.

If you are in a high-volume production environment, your SAP reports can generate extremely long lists of data. While creating customized layouts can help to reduce the unnecessary information shown, they cannot help you to locate specific information within your report output. Fortunately, SAP offers several tools to assist you in refining your data output, located in the toolbar of your reporting screens (see Figure 1.9).

Figure 1.9: Reporting screen toolbar (more…)

Stop thinking about S/4 HANA – ​have a plan to migrate! (more…)

Meet Espresso Tutorials author Sydnie McConnell. Sydnie is the co-author of First Steps in SAP and has a new book coming out with Espresso Tutorials in the fall of 2016 (stay tuned for upcoming announcements).  (more…)

Meet Espresso Tutorials author Thomas Michael. Thomas is the author of Reporting for SAP Asset Accounting.

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The recording from the Espresso Tutorials Virtual Book Club Meeting: Practical Guide to SAP GTS is now available. (more…)

Reserve your place now for the upcoming Espresso Tutorials Virtual Book Club Meeting: What on Earth is an SAP IDoc? with author Jelena Perfiljeva. (more…)

Tip on how to create customized transaction layouts by Matt Johnson, author of The SAP Material Master – a Practical Guide.

You will find that many SAP Materials Management transactional outputs and reports contain far more information than you need. This overload of information can cause you to waste time searching for the relevant data. Fortunately, you can tailor these outputs to show only the information that you are interested in.
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Have you ever wondered: “What is the underlying transaction code for a specific configuration step?”

Have you ever had difficulty navigating through the customizing project to locate a specific configuration step and wondered: “Is there was a quick way to simply enter a transaction code and get to the configuration step?”

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Meet Espresso Tutorials author Ashish Sampat. Ashish is the author of First Steps in SAP Controlling (CO).

How did you get your start with SAP?
I started my professional career in 1996 with Arvind Mills in Ahmedabad, India. (more…)

Tip on how to create favorites in SAP Materials Materials by Matt Johnson, author of The SAP Material Master – a Practical Guide.

SAP transactions are accessed by either entering the transaction code into the transaction field, or by drilling into the SAP menu and double clicking on the desired transaction on the SAP home screen. (more…)

Excerpt from  Practical Guide to SAP ABAP Part 1: Conceptual Design, Development, Debugging by Thomas Stutenbäumer.

Foreign keys
To avoid incorrect user input, you can define foreign keys for determined fields. (more…)

Meet Espresso Tutorials author Kevin Riddell. Kevin is the co-author of Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part 1: SPL Screening and Compliance Management and Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part 2: Preference and Customs Management.

How did you get your start with SAP?
I have worked for Tremco for 22 years, and we began with SAP in 1998. For years I was an ECC user, and then in 2011 when we added the GTS module, I became the business owner for that part of SAP. (more…)