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Variant Principle Concept in SAP

July 6th, 2009

The concept of variant principle

 

The variant principle is a three step method which is used in SAP to assign special properties to SAP objects. The three steps used in the variant principle are:

 

  1. Define the Variant
  2. Populate the Variant with values
  3. Assign the variant to SAP objects

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Payment Terms in SAP

July 2nd, 2009

What are terms of payments and where are they stored ?

 

Payment terms are created in SAP configuration and determine the payment due date for customer/vendor
invoices.

 

They are stored on the customer/vendor master record and are pulled through onto the customer/vendor invoice postings. The due date derived via the payment can be changed on each individual invoice if required

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General Activities for SAP Implementation

June 27th, 2009

Here is the list of general activities which need to consider when implement SAP project from SAP Wiki

Generally followed Implementation Activities:

To Be Phase

  • As Is and To Be Documentation
  • Gap Analysis
  • To Be Sign Off
  • Closing of Gaps as per scope

Unit Testing

  • Preparation of test cases
  • Changes to configuration for any SAP errors

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Mass change of additional SAP fields

June 25th, 2009

Currently, FBL1N transaction allows the mass update of multiple fields through the Mass Change functionality in the SAP menu path.

How to add additional fields to this Mass Change functionality?

 

There is a SAP OSS note which useful for this requirement. That is..

 

SAP Note 640908 – Line item: Mass change of additional fields

On the new line item list (SAP transactions: FBL1N, FBL3N, FBL5N (FAGLL03 as of ERP2004)), you can carry out a mass change for certain document fields. You want to add fields to the mass change that do not exist in the SAP standard system.

Some fields for the mass change are not contained in the SAP standard system.

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Treasury Management Overview

June 24th, 2009

Treasury Management in SAP has increased leaps and bounds from older versions to the last ERP Central Component 6.0 version.

The main advantage of using SAP is that it has integration with virtually every other module. But the case of Treasury is different that firms dealing in treasury are generally isolated i.e. they will have finance and treasury only. They generally don’t have other modules like MM or PP.

Hence SAP has to be really strong in a niche segment like treasury if it has to be successful as it has with other areas like manufacturing.

 

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