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- 10 Best Practices for Designing Summarization Levels
by Mitresh Kundalia, SAP Practice Manager, Quality Systems & Software, Inc.
Drawing on his personal experience, the author clarifies how the R/3 system determines which summarization level to use. He then gives tips on how to use that information to design efficient summarization levels, and thus improve your system's report performance.
- 1099 MISC - Extended Withholding Tax Reporting Offers Two Correction Programs
by Martin Ullmann, Manager, Ariston Consulting
1099 MISC reporting is one of those processes that never gets the attention it really deserves during implementations or upgrades. The reason is that 1099 MISC reporting is not a main business process, but rather a task that needs to be done once a year in the United States. (See "What Is 1099 MISC Reporting?")
- Automate Your Data Compilation Processes with BPS — It’s
Not Just for Planning
by Matt Christensen, Director of Enterprise Performance
Management, PRAGMATEK Consulting Group
Do
you have users tracking time spent on projects in spreadsheets
and emailing them throughout your organization to be
compiled? Do you extract financial results and perform
Excel-based calculations for management reports? Are
you developing product or project quotes for customers
in a spreadsheet that is not integrated to your operational
system? Learn how to use Business Planning and Simulation
(BPS) to cut operating expenses and reduce cycle times
associated with data collection and processing.
- Behind SAP’s Internal IFRS Project
by Davin Wilfrid (September 2009)
Like most global businesses with subsidiaries in dozens of countries, SAP’s reporting requirements are daunting. The looming switch to IFRS in the US has complicated things even further, requiring SAP to implement a parallel accounting structure to account for both US GAAP and IFRS reporting rules. See how the company was able to manage this complex project successfully, and how it plans to build on IFRS for the future.
- Build a Financial Scorecard with SEM
by Paul Halley, Director of Strategic Enterprise Management, Business Information Solutions, LLC
The Balanced Scorecard is a helpful and integral part of the Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) module, but sometimes your data requires a specific functional focus that is unavailable with this tool. For example, if you need easy access to financial information, then using a financial scorecard can greatly benefit your organization. The author takes you through the steps necessary to create a financial scorecard.
- Complete the Data Cycle with Automatic Retraction to
Transactional Systems
by Matt Christensen, Director of Enterprise Performance
Management, PRAGMATEK Consulting Group
Do
you have planning process results data in SAP NetWeaver
Business Intelligence (BI) that your transactional
system could use? Is the transactional system putting
you to work as you extract it from BI manually? Here’s
how to implement automated retraction to have your
system do the legwork of maximizing your existing data
for you.
- Effectively Create a Standard Cost Estimate Across Plants
by Akhilesh Mittal, Senior Consultant, Infosys Technologies Ltd. (June 2009)
A complex manufacturing scenario may require operations to be carried out in different plants that manufacture a given good at various stages. Weigh the pros and cons of SAP’s four methods for creating a standard cost estimate for a semi-finished good in the receiving plant in a multiple-plant scenario.
- Enable Paperless Requests with MSS and R/3's Internal Service Request
by Markus Kuppe, Director of Product Management, mySAP Financials Portal Solutions, SAP AG
Manager Self-Service (MSS) is delivered with Web forms that allow users to request services such as master data change requests from central departments. These HTML forms are built with SAP's Internal Service Request (ISR) functionality.
- Get a Quick Start with SEM by Implementing Performance Monitoring in a Flash
by Matt Christensen, Senior Consultant, PRAGMATEK Consulting Group
To demonstrate the value of Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM), you can quickly implement a Management Cockpit by integrating a cockpit with Business Planning and Simulation (BPS) functionality. The cockpit can demonstrate to managers how SEM helps companies plan, illustrate, and communicate executive strategy.
- How mySAP ERP Affects the Business Unit Analyst
by Janet Salmon, SAP AG
mySAP ERP includes role-based portals for many user groups including the business unit analyst. The author focuses on this role and its configuration. She also examines two areas within the role, reporting and internal service requests.
- IFRS Adoption for US Companies: A Primer
by Anurag Barua, Senior Manager (April 2009)
Worried about the impending US conversion to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)? See some quick hints about things you should know and places you can look for information as the landscape changes.
- Lessons Learned from Using Solution Manager for an Implementation Project
by Darshan Shah, Platinum Solutions Architect, itelligence, Inc.
SAP Solution Manager, the successor to ASAP/ValueSAP, boasts features such as project preparation, an implementation roadmap, the ability to manage multiple projects, and compatibility with legacy systems and R/3. The author, who worked on one of the first U.S. implementations of Solution Manager, shares his advice on how to optimize this tool.
- Make the SEM Management Cockpit More Useful with Drill-Down Configuration
by Paul Halley, Director of Strategic Enterprise Management, Business Information Solutions
SEM's Management Cockpit (MC) creates easy-to-use graphics that display data of all types. While most executives want to see the summarized data that the cockpit displays so well, they also want to be able to examine the details of that data. The author explains how to use a little known piece of functionality that allows a user to drill down from an MC graph to a BW query. From there, the user then can drill down further into an R/3 line item report.
- Make Your Line Managers Better Cost Accountants with Manager Self-Service Manager Self-Service
by Markus Kuppe, SAP AG
This first article in a series on Manager Self-Service, one of the standard Business Package applications that come in your SAP Enterpise Portal, helps you to understand how it can change the way decision-makers use financial information in your company.
- Manager Self-Service's Monitors Send Budget Alerts to Managers
by Markus Kuppe, Director of Product Management, mySAP Financials Portals Solutions, SAP AG
As part of a series on Manager Self-Service (MSS), the author takes a closer look at the various monitors that alert managers before budgets are overrun. The alerts are based on rules the finance department or managers define.
- Meet Complex Business Requirements with User Exits in SEM-BPS
by Matt Christensen, Director of Enterprise Performance Management, PRAGMATEK Consulting Group
You can easily customize SAP's Business Planning and Simulation (SEM-BPS) module with user-defined functional enhancements to achieve specific or advanced business requirements.
- Provide Report Writer and BW Reports Without Selection Screens
by Markus Kuppe, Director Product Management, mySAP Financials Portal Solutions, SAP AG
Manager Self-Service (MSS) provides your end users with new reporting functionalities - reports without selection screens, a new set of tables that stores their selection criteria per user, and the ability to look at more than one report on a screen. This article is the third in a series on MSS, which is standard Business Package that comes with SAP Enterprise Portal.
- Quick Tip: Realize Tax Savings with a Cost Segregation Study in FI-AA
by Christopher Courter, President, Morningstar Business Consulting, Inc. (July 2009)
Review some tips and techniques for the successful implementation of the cost segregation study in your Asset Accounting (FI-AA) system — and the tax savings you can achieve as a result.
- Safeguard Your SAP SEM Balanced Scorecard Data When Migrating to SAP Strategy Management
by Dr. Karol Bliznak, SAP AG
Learn about the migration path for scorecard data from SAP Strategic Enterprise Management Balanced Scorecard to SAP Strategy Management. Navigate around the pitfalls of a migration process and safeguard valuable scorecard data, such as strategic objectives and key performance indicators.
- SAP Consolidation Strategy: SAP BW-Based SEM-BCS vs. R/3 EC-CS
by Paul Halley, Director SEM Practice, Business Information Solutions (BIS) and Alan Hildebrandt, Managing Director, BIS
Canada, Inc
An integrated financial consolidation system is crucial to facilitate the month-end closing process. Weigh the functionalities of two SAP consolidation tools, EC-CS and Business Information Warehouse (BW)-based SEM-BCS.
- SAP NetWeaver 2004s: Data Upload Feature Enhances Sarbanes-Oxley Consolidations Compliance
by Peter Jones, Platinum Consultant,
SAP
SAP NetWeaver 2004s includes automatic data uploading functionality that replaces the Microsoft Excel-based method. It features a new consolidated process using Real-Time InfoCubes and Real-Time DataStore objects.
- SAP NetWeaver Portal: Initiate and Track the Planning Process with Collaboration Rooms
by Janet Salmon, SAP AG
The Business Unit Analyst role shipped in mySAP ERP 2005 replaces the spreadsheets and distribution lists that used to organize the process of gathering and monitoring the submission of budget data with a collaboration room. Learn how it is designed specifically to select the managers who need to plan, send out workflow tasks to these managers, track the responses, and monitor and approve the planning data.
- Transaction Manager Supports Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
by Aylin Korkmaz, Senior Consultant, Accenture
Managing financial transactions with the right balance of functionality, flexibility, security, and efficiency is the ultimate goal of today's competitive economy. An infrastructure that facilitates straight-through processing (STP) can best support these goals and provide the transparency that Sarbanes-Oxley compliance demands. SAP provides that infrastructure with Transaction Manager, a component of Treasury and Risk Management.
- Understand RCA Concepts to More Easily Evaluate Your Ever-Expanding CO Module Functionality Options
by Kurt Goldsmith, Business Consultant, ICM America LLC
Since 1998, SAP has supported more than one costing philosophy in the R/3 CO module. This means that the CO user/designer has more and potentially confusing options when making scope decisions. The author focuses on one of those costing philosophies--Resource Consumption Accounting--and compares it to the better understood full absorption accounting so that you better understand the available CO options.
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