We have several new books coming your way that will increase your SAP knowledge and help you and your company use SAP more effectively. (more…)

Forrest Burnson at Software Advice, a firm that helps buyers choose ERP software, recently wrote an article called Cloud ERP vs On-Premise ERP.  The article provides a breakdown of the advantages and disadvantages of each type of ERP system, and how you can determine which system is best for your organization. (more…)

Excerpt from First Steps in SAP, second edition.

Transactions in SAP ERP
We are now going to show you a simple example of a transaction in SAP ERP by demonstrating how to post a document in financial accounting (module FI). As we discussed in Section 2.1.3, the transaction to post a document is found in the menu tree via ACCOUNTING • FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING • POSTING • ENTER G/L ACCOUNT DOCUMENT (Transaction FB50) — see Figure 2.34. (more…)

What is S/4 HANA? 
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…)

What is SAP HANA Live? SAP HANA Live represents a prebuilt number of views that are used for operational reporting. (more…)

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…)

Learn more about SAP List Viewer (ALV) – A Practical Guide for ABAP Developers author Kathi Kones.

How did you get your start with SAP and SAP development?

I was on a cross-functional rotation at a manufacturing plant and almost missed the chance to participate in the implementation of SAP at General Mills in the mid-1990s. My assignments since joining the company in 1987 had been varied: a laptop/email roll-out to remote sales personnel, programming in CoBOL, Lotus, and Paradox, consumer coupon tracking and control, and local area network support. (more…)

Excerpt from SAP® HANA for ERP Financials by Janet Salmon and Ulrich Schlüter

SAP HANA as a primary database

The accelerated applications described in Chapter 3 also run in this scenario. In addition, there are further use cases that have been optimized based on the current
transactions. We will look at three examples in this chapter. (more…)

SAP tutorial : How to post a document in SAP Financial Accounting
http://ow.ly/WbGBI

Excerpt from The SAP BW to HANA Migration Handbook by Rob Frye, Dr. Bjarne Berg, Joe Darlak.

Sample DMO task list
The complete DMO migration task list, from the world’s largest DMO migration, is presented in this section. Please be aware that your process may vary in some details, but you should be able to use the tasks in this section as a baseline for building your own task list. You also need to remember that the complete task list should be updated and refined as you complete the migration of each system in your multi-tiered system landscape. For example, once you have created your baseline task list, update and refine it with lessons you learn from test migrations of your sandbox and development environments. The process should be quite refined before you complete the migration of your QA environment, and the QA migration should be the dry run which is used as the basis for your GO/NO-GO decision prior to the migration of the production environment. For this reason, the task list should require very little tweaking by the time you complete the QA migration. (more…)

Excerpt from First Steps in ABAP by Dr. Boris Rubarth

Reports are a good starting point for familiarizing yourself with general ABAP principles and tools. Although modern user interface features aren’t used, ABAP reports are still used in many areas.

This chapter will show how easy it is to write a simple ABAP Report. With the knowledge provided in this chapter, readers will be able to examine existing ABAP applications delivered by SAP or as part of a customer implementation project. (more…)

In this video tutorial, learn how to post a document in SAP Financial Accounting (SAP FI). (more…)