Downloads

Please note that you can find the download files for recent articles at the bottom of the individual articles.

March 2007

For: "Configure and Manage All Period-End Closing Activities with Schedule Manager," by Anurag Barua, Manager, SAP Application Support, The Washington Post.

Click here to download a list of six troubleshooting tips.

For: "Plants Abroad Eases Country-Specific Tax Reporting," by Kees van Westerop, Senior SAP Consultant, Atos Origin.

Click here to download an explanation on how to maintain the correct tax code when activating Plants Abroad.

February 2007

For: "Test Your BAPIs for Safe Data Transfer to the FI/CO Interface," by Kiran Bapat, FI/CO Consultant.

Click here to download a table of common BAPIs.

July/August 2006

For "Advanced Techniques to Optimize R/3 Lockbox Performance and Accelerate Cash Receipts," by Qian Sharon Tang, System Program Manager.

Click here for details about the lockbox logic and steps, as well as an advanced example of reshuffle logic.

May 2006

For "Complete the Data Cycle with Automatic Retraction to Transactional Systems" by Matt Christensen, Director of Enterprise Performance Management, PRAGMATEK Consulting Group.

Click here to download the electronic versions of code featured in Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8.

April 2006

For: "Currency Types: The Key to Reporting Parallel Valuations" by Rohana Gunawardena, Principal Consultant, Exium, Inc.

Click here to download the table showing all of the currency types available in SAP.

November/December 2005

For: "Quick Tip: Simplify and Improve Document Output: Convert SAPscript to Smart Forms by Rajen Iyer, CPIM, PMP, SAP America, Inc.

Click here to read the "How to Develop Smart Forms" guide referred to in Rajen's article.

September 2005

For: "Manage Credit Card Expenses with mySAP ERP Travel Management," by Debbie Peake, SAP Labs LLC.

Click here to read the additional details about the types of cards and programs, including current trends and best practices, referred to in Debbie's article.

June 2005

For: "Use Change Documents for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Testing" by Qian (Sharon) Tang, System Program Manager.

The author provides a second example of a change documents search. Click here and here for images of the second example.

For: "Ask the SAP Financials Expert: How Do I Retrieve and Display Archived CO-PA Line Items?" by Mitresh Kundalia, Director - SAP Practice, Quality Systems & Software Inc.

Click here for the sample code for the custom ABAP to retrieve CO-PA line items from an archive.

April 2005

For: "Meet Complex Business Requirements with User Exits in SEM-BPS," by Matt Christensen, Director of Enterprise Performance Management, PRAGMATEK Consulting Group.

The author provides full code for the sample function modules featured in his article:

• Characteristic relationships - validate input combinations of characteristic values
   
• Characteristic relationships - derive fiscal quarter from fiscal period
   
• Characteristic relationships - propose valid combinations of characteristics
   
• Exit function - custom retraction to send data back to R/3
   
• Status Tracker sequence - check underlying data before allowing approval through STS
   
• Variable - derive value of currency variable from cost center variable

November/December 2004

For: "Project System: Achieve Faster Closes when Using the Engineer-to-Order Process," by Marco Jordy, Senior Consultant, Orbis America, Inc.

The author supplements his article with more detailed information on settlement and reporting, and with step-by-step instructions on setting up the incoming order functionality in Customizing.

July/August 2004

For: "Use Reconciliation Account Determination With A Special G/L Indicator For More Flexible Invoicing," by Rohana Gunawardena, senior consultant, Exium, Inc.

The author supplements his article with step-by-step instructions for configuring reconciliation account determination.

April 2004

For: "Integrate Your Extended Warranty Program with FI/CO," by Qian Sharon Tang, System Project Manager.

The author supplements her article with detailed T-accounts for the standard warranty process.

January 2004

For: "How to Create an Automatically Posted Intercompany Sales Journal Entry," by Christian Eckhardt, IT analyst.

The author provides answers to eight questions about such issues as the role of OBCA and SBPT and outbound and inbound parameters. Christian supplements his answers with relevant screenprints.

October 2003

For: "How R/3 Accounts for the European Union's Value Added Tax," by Roy Brookes, Senior FI/CO Consultant.

The author supplements his article on the Value Added Tax with tips, step-by-step customizing instructions, and a definition of commonly used terms. He also describes how enforcement is carried out, with details of a VAT inspection conducted by the "fiscal police" in Italy.

September 2003

For: "What the Wizards Don't Tell You About Intrastat Reporting," by Kees van Westerop, SAP Consultant.

The author provides step-by-step detail on how to set up your R/3 system to produce Intra European Community Trade Statistics (Intrastat) reports.

July/August 2003

For: "Who Changed My Config?" by Rohana Gunawardena, Senior SAP Consultant, Exium Inc.

The author supplements his article in the July/August 2003 issue of FI/CO Expert on the use of table logging to track configuration changes. This online material provides technical details for the Basis team.

For: "Fast Data Conversion, Migration, and Updates for Functional Analysts with LSMW," by Mitresh Kundalia, Senior FI/CO Consultant.

The author supplements his article on the Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) in the July/August 2003 issue of FI/CO Expert with two step-by-step demos showing how to use LSMW to update customer master records.

May 2003

For: "Improve Your Lockbox Performance with User Exits, a Reformat Program, and Customized Reports," by Qian Sharon Tang, System Project Manager, Applied Materials, Inc.

The author supplements her article on lockbox performance in the May issue of FI/CO Expert with information on implementing the functionality.

March 2003

For: "Make Your Custom Reports for Production Order Costs or WIP Easier to Write and Use by Understanding Where the Material's Short Text Is Hiding," by Kurt Goldsmith, IT Implementation Consultant, ICM America.

Click here for the example program mentioned in the article.

February 2003

For: "'Update Was Terminated' - What Every FI/CO User Should Know About This Error Message," by Rohana Gunawardena.

This article explains how to detect and correct "Update terminated" errors. Here, he provides step-by-step directions on "What to Do When You See the Message, 'Update Was Terminated'."

November/December 2002

For: "How to Use the SIS Data Warehouse for Management Reporting," by Mitresh Kundalia, senior FI/CO Consultant, Zen & Art (page 1).

The author demonstrates how to set up your own reports in the Sales Information System to provide users with more detailed information than is found in the monthly sales bookings reports. Here, he provides a "Step-by-Step Guide to Activating a Self-defined SIS Structure" that augments the explanation in the newsletter article.

June 2002

For: "Improving the Fit of the Standard FI/CO System to Your Site's Specific Business Requirements with User Exits, Enhancements, and Events," by Tami Becker, SAP Platinum Consultant, SAP America (page 1).

The article explains how to enhance R/3 features without modifying the standard code. This white paper from SAP, "User Exits in FI/CO," supplements her article with tips on how to find and use each method.

April 2002

For: "Use a Custom ABAP Report to Find 'Labor Hours Confirmed on Production Orders' Data Entry Mistakes...Before Your Month-End Closing," by Tim Hodge, Senior SAP Platinum Consultant, ICM America LLC (page 1).

The article includes a sample output of an ABAP report on labor confirmation. Here, he provides a copy of the code he used to generate that report using R/3 release 4.0B.

For: "Ask the FI/CO Expert: 'Do I Need to Create Rules Concerning Address Printing on Accounts Payable Checks?'," by Sue Stack, SAPScript expert, New Alliance Associates, Inc. (page 15).

More information about the ADDRESS function is provided in this online Help explanation from the 4.0 system.

March 2002

For: "This Time Tomorrow, You Could Be on the Way to a Successful Audit Preparation... With the Free Data Retention Tool (DART)," by Tami Becker, SAP Platinum Consultant (page 1).

The IRS Electronic format requirements for all business documents and transaction data are detailed in the download, IRS Revenue Procedure 98-25.doc. (Prior to R/3 release 4.6 and the DART, to meet this annual need, many R/3 sites had to have custom ABAP programs written to extract the business data and convert it into reusable, offline files.) In addition, the author provides DART Technical Guide.doc, her in-depth (screen-by-screen) technical guide that details how to add the DART to your system and get it up and running.

February 2002

For: "Why Do Previously Approved Sales Orders End Up on the Credit Hold List a Second Time... And What Can I Do About It?," by Carla Kieffer, Independent SAP Consultant, i2c, Inc. (page 1).

Credit Management Sample Code.doc includes her sample code with custom rules regarding whether or not a sales order's data values should be allowed to bypass the default online credit-checking routines

January 2002

For: "An Invaluable Real-World Performance Tip They Don't Teach Implementation Teams and Designers in CO-PA Class: 'Characteristic Group'," by Tony Rogan, Senior Applications Consultant, et alia (page 5).

The article explains how the characteristics group functionality can be used to establish consistency as to which characteristics are populated in updating a given CO-PA system. In a white paper, "A Quick Look at How to Use 'Frozen Data' and Speed Up Your CO-PA Report Response in the Process," the author provides more details about CO-PA functionality.

For: "Gain Control of Unresolved A/R Documents or Accounts with the Deduction Management Component," by Keith Hibbitts, SAP Platinum Consultant (page 13).

The author describes how the Deduction Management Component functionality can be used to track, interpret, record, and manage the life of A/R documents and accounts. The download, "Deduction Management Component," is a full-text article on the functionality.

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