SAP FI-AA User Guide: Asset Retirement

This manual covers steps required for the removal of an asset or part of an asset from the asset portfolio in SAP Finance-Asset Accounting. The removal of an asset (or part of an asset) is posted from a bookkeeping perspective as an asset retirement. In SAP Asset Accounting, the removal of an asset by sale, as well as any resulting revenue, can be posted in a single step. At the same time, you can choose to post to Accounts Receivable (through integration with Financial Accounting) or to a reconciliation account.

Following list of transactions are covered in this document:

  • Retirement with Customer – F-92
  • Asset Sale without Customer – ABAON
  • Asset retirement by scrapping – ABAVN
  • Subsequent Revenue – ABNE
  • Subsequent cost – ABNK

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SAP MM Manual: Management of Freight Conditions on Purchase Order

In SAP, when buying goods, you can account for the cost of shipping in the purchase order by adding a line for freight to the overall Purchase Order (PO), or by using Freight Conditions.
Freight Conditions have the advantage of being invisible to the Goods Receiver while being visible to the AP Processor. Freight conditions can apply to the overall PO, or be different for each line, and can be entered as a fixed amount or as a percentage of the order value.

In this guide, following activities are explained for the management of Freight Conditions in SAP-MM,

  • Including freight conditions in the purchase order header – ME21N
  • Including freight conditions at the purchase line item level

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Naming Conventions in ABAP: Short Guide

A naming convention specifies the set of rules used to identify development objects. SAP plays a role in the setting of the rules insofar it enforces its own recommendations. (See the following the section called Customer Name Space ID). In the ABAP environment the non-reserved aspect of a custom repository object name (and the names of any custom internal components) are arbitrary. The overall responsibility for the enforcement of the naming conventions lies with the individual developers.

What is prescribed in the following sections ensures: (1) a distinction between SAP standard code, partner code, and customer code and (2) meaningful names for custom developed objects that promote ease-of-identification.

As part of the delivery process Code Inspector (Transaction code “SCII”) will be used to check whether programs adhere to naming conventions or not. (A Global Variant will be created called ‘SSC_DEFAULT’ to aid the developers.

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Introductory Presentation to ABAP for Functional Consultants

This presentation aims to outline basics of SAP’s proprietary programming language, ABAP to Functional Consultants.

  • ABAP
    • Client Server Architecture
    • ABAP Repository
    • ABAP Workbench
    • Introduction to ABAP Programming Language
  • Data Dictionary
    • Structures
    • Internal Tables
    • Transparent Tables
  • User Exits and Badi’s
  • ALE & IDocs
  • ABAP Debugger

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Beginner’s Ultimate Guide to Material Master Data Views in SAP MM

In this guide, all Material Master Data views are covered with the implication on vital processes in SAP system. You will find how each of the following list of view is created, its obligatory data, optional fields, and how its creation reflects the system.

  • Basic Views
  • Classification View
  • Sales Organization Datas
  • Sales General / Plant View
  • Foreign Trade / Export View
  • MRP Views
  • Plant data – Storage 1 View
  • Warehouse Management ViewsQuality management View
  • Accounting View
  • Costing Views
  • Purchasing View
  • Foreign Trade Import View
  • Purchase order text View
  • Additional data

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SAP FI Business Blueprint Sample with AS-IS & TO-BE Details

This document provides business Blueprint Document instructions for Finance module of SAP with following details:

  • Enterprise Structure of Company
  • Business requirements as given by the Company Key Users
  • Suggestions by consultants wherever mySAP ERP are found to be useful to Company’s business functionality
  • To-Be Process on mySAP ERP system suggested by Consultants
  • Comments whether the requirement can be realized on the mySAP ERP system or not.
  • Gaps which are at different stages of exploration

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Fundamentals of Plant Maintenance in SAP: FAQ for Newbies

Objective of this presentation is:

  • Developing an understanding of SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) / Plant Maintenance (PM)
  • Identifying those areas where significant preparation needs to be done
  • Identifying those areas where key decisions are to be made / understood
  • Not to be able to create objects (master data etc. ) nor to operate the solutions

 

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Account Determination Configuration Guide in SAP ECC 6

Account determinations in SAP, also referred to as automatic account assignments, are pre-assigned G/L accounts used in specific business transactions. For practical purposes, account determinations automatically generate FI line items (for transactions originating in FI) or entire FI documents (for transactions originating outside FI). In posting FI documents, account determinations provide consistency, ease of entry, and accuracy.

In this document author covers configuration of account determinations in SAP using transaction codes in detail.

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SAP ABAP – Handnotes from Training Session

this 150+ pages handnotes document provides some basic knowledge and an introduction to ABAP Programming in SAP. Some of the headlines from the notes are:

  • Roles and Responsibility of ABAP Consultant
  • SAP Architecture
  • ABAP System Landscape
  • Naming Conventions
  • System Variables
  • Steps to Create a Table
  • Table Maintenance Generator
  • Reports

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