Have you ever spent days trying to figure out how to generate a personnel report in SAP ERP HCM only to find out you just needed to click a few buttons. If so, you'll be delighted with this book -- it unlocks the secrets of SAP ERP HCM. It provides users and super-users with 100 tips and workarounds you can use to increase productivity, save time, and improve the overall ease-of-use of SAP ERP HCM. The tips have been carefully selected to provide a collection of the best, most useful, and rarest information. And with the uniform easy-to-follow, visually-oriented layout, you'll get everything you need to know in a concise, practical presentation. Your SAP user experience will be friendlier and easier, and you may even hear a few comments like "I had no idea you could do that that way " or "I wish I had known how to do that a long time ago " With the time-saving shortcuts and workarounds provided, users of all levels can get the most out of their daily interaction with the system. In addition, these insightful tips will help make customization easier, reduce the demands on IT's time, and make users more efficient and effective.

Materials management is not an exact science; managing the end-to-end intricacies of a supply chain, as well as the individual nuts and bolts within that network is a huge undertaking. This book provides 100 industry-tested, practical workarounds, and tips for MM users of all levels. Youll be able to focus less on navigating the complex materials management software, and more on the tools and techniques that save time and increase productivity. SAP PRESS equips you with the 100 Things that unlock the secrets of working with Materials Management in SAP ERP with detailed screenshots, using easy implementation instructions and a hands-on approach.

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SAP PRESS equips you with 110 Things that unlock the secrets of working with the Controlling component in SAP! Get ready to add to your CO arsenal, and replace some cumbersome techniques youve been using for cost object controlling, profit center accounting, profitability analysis, and more. This second edition comes with an additional 10 bonus tips. Whether you think you know it all, or know that you don't, this book gives you expert tips to get there.

Learn how to save time when managing SAP system security with this book, which unlocks the secrets of working with authorizations in the SAP Basis system. Youll find 100 tips and workarounds you can use to increase productivity and improve the security of your SAP system. The tips are grouped together based on the area of authorizations they cover, such as development security, Profile Generator, upgrades, and more. They have been carefully selected to provide a collection of the best, most useful, and rarest information. With this book, you will be able to work more quickly, easily, and effectively.

If youre an SAP ERP Financial Accounting user or super-user, this book offers you 100 tips and workarounds that can be used withing your SAP systems to increase productivity and ease-of-use. The tips have been carefully selected to provide a collection of the best, most useful, and rarest information. This book unlocks the secrets of an SAP Financial Accounting guru for use by everyone.

Thoroughly Updated and Expanded! Includes New Coverage on Cloud Computing for SAP! In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll master the latest updates on SAP, and discover how to succeed with it in real business and technical environments! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll learn through practical hands-on examples and case studies based on SAP’s free demonstration software. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a strong real-world foundation with both the business and technical sides of SAP. Leading SAP architect and consultant George Anderson starts with the absolute basics...thoroughly covers core business, reporting, and administration tasks...and takes you all the way to the cutting edge, including how the cloud might be used to support SAP environments. Step-by-Step instructions carefully walk you through the most common SAP tasks. Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge. By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion. Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks. Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them. Learn how to... Integrate various cloud resources into your current-day SAP environments Understand SAP applications, components, and architecture Obtain and install the trial version of SAP, step by step Use NetWeaver, SAP ERP, the SAP Business Suite, and other SAP applications Select an access method and create user roles and authorizations Customize your user interface for maximum convenience and productivity Transact day-to-day business, including sample sales order transactions, personnel updates, and more Work through complex processes, such as “Order to Cash” Query from SAP and third-party business productivity tools, such as SharePoint Professionally tune, maintain, and monitor SAP systems Plan and build new SAP applications Prepare for SAP projects, including technical upgrades and enhancements Develop your career as a SAP business or technology professional Dr. George W. Anderson, senior architect and SAP Basis Consultant for Microsoft Services, specializes in designing and optimizing mission-critical platforms for SAP and other enterprise applications. He’s passionate about developing architectural patterns and tools capable of enabling the kind of business agility that IT has been promising for years and businesses today need more than ever. A certified SAP technical consultant, PMI PMP, and long-time MCSE, his books include SAP Implementation Unleashed and the popular SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation. Category: SAP Covers: SAP User Level: Beginning–Intermediate

The Only Complete Technical Primer for MDM Planners, Architects, and Implementers Companies moving toward flexible SOA architectures often face difficult information management and integration challenges. The master data they rely on is often stored and managed in ways that are redundant, inconsistent, inaccessible, non-standardized, and poorly governed. Using Master Data Management (MDM), organizations can regain control of their master data, improve corresponding business processes, and maximize its value in SOA environments. Enterprise Master Data Management provides an authoritative, vendor-independent MDM technical reference for practitioners: architects, technical analysts, consultants, solution designers, and senior IT decisionmakers. Written by the IBM ® data management innovators who are pioneering MDM, this book systematically introduces MDM’s key concepts and technical themes, explains its business case, and illuminates how it interrelates with and enables SOA. Drawing on their experience with cutting-edge projects, the authors introduce MDM patterns, blueprints, solutions, and best practices published nowhere else—everything you need to establish a consistent, manageable set of master data, and use it for competitive advantage. Coverage includes How MDM and SOA complement each other Using the MDM Reference Architecture to position and design MDM solutions within an enterprise Assessing the value and risks to master data and applying the right security controls Using PIM-MDM and CDI-MDM Solution Blueprints to address industry-specific information management challenges Explaining MDM patterns as enablers to accelerate consistent MDM deployments Incorporating MDM solutions into existing IT landscapes via MDM Integration Blueprints Leveraging master data as an enterprise asset—bringing people, processes, and technology together with MDM and data governance Best practices in MDM deployment, including data warehouse and SAP integration

Ensure an efficient and orderly Warehouse Management implementation with this comprehensive guide to SAP WM in SAP ERP Learn to customize and use critical functionalities, like goods receipt and goods issue, as well as advanced technologies such as RFID, EDI, and mobile data entry. Covering everything from stock management to picking strategies, you'll master SAP WM. This new edition includes ITSmobile, connections with SAP ERP PP and QM, the warehouse activity monitor, and more. SAP WM Processes Grasp the essentials of warehouse management, including goods receipt, goods issue, replenishment, and putaway. Then master advanced topics such as hazardous materials management, cross-docking, and value-added services. SAP WM Configuration Understand the configuration details necessary to optimize your SAP WM implementation, from storage bins to yard management. Real World Scenarios Explore concrete business cases and examples to help you put expert tips into practice in your own warehouse. Highlights: -Stock management -Goods receipt and goods issue -Replenishment -Picking strategies -Putaway strategies -Inventory management -Yard management -Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) -Radio frequency identification (RFID) -ITSmobile

It's Friday afternoon, you are ready to go home, but you get a call from your customer telling you that their order will need to be express delivered. The only thing now between you and your weekend is changing the delivery priority in a hundred and sixty-eight order items. The good news is there's now a resource for you to learn how to do things quicker and more efficiently. This book unlocks the secrets of Sales and Distribution in SAP ERP (SAP SD). It provides users and super-users with 100 tips and workarounds to increase productivity, save time, and improve overall ease-of-use of the SD functionality in SAP ERP and SAP R/3. The tips have been carefully selected by SAP gurus to provide a collection of the best, most useful, and rarest information. With this book, users of all levels will: 1. Save timeWith the shortcuts and workarounds provided, you'll learn how to complete your daily SD tasks faster and more elegantly. 2. Learn quicklyFull of screenshots and instructions, this book will help you pick up new tips and tricks in no time, such as using more efficient sales transactions and customizing your system to better monitor customer credit. 3. Develop new skillsYou'll discover new ways of doing your work and find yourself saying, "I wish I'd known how to do this a long time ago!" Highlights include: Master data Sales support Sales Shipping Transportation Billing Credit management SIS