Industrial Sector: How Leaders are Driving Change

BOSTON, Mass., September 9, 2019 – SAPinsider, the world’s largest and fastest-growing independent membership organization of SAP professionals with more than 350,000 members, announced strategic investments that will improve the already industry-leading value it provides to the SAP community. Tom LeBlanc has joined the company as its new Managing Editor, John Sellazzo as President of…

Agile and Intelligent PLM is poised to take the use of data and intelligence across the product lifecycle to a whole new level. Discover what is driving adoption of Agile and Intelligent PLM, what sets Leaders apart, and what holds Laggards back. Gain the key requirements and steps to success. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) can…...…

Discover the necessary development activities that BI developers must carry out during the functional and technical design phases of a project life cycle. These tasks ensure that system redundancy is optimized to reduce system maintenance costs. In addition, the tasks enable you to maintain a single version of the truth for sharable master data. Key…...…

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…...…

Although BW provides filter and drill-down functionality, many BW users miss the pivoting functionality of MS Excel. The author provides seven easy steps to enable drag-and-drop functionality in SAP BW queries. This gives end users the power to optimize their BW queries. I know from many talks with FI/CO end users who are running BW…...…

A thorough knowledge of how to manage signs (plus and minus) can prevent inconsistencies in the CO-PA module. The author tells you why you should avoid using a discount condition with different signs and provides a transferring method to use if the same condition must have different signs. Did you know that it’s possible for…...…

Given the limited configuration opportunities to control financial postings, substitution user exits are an effective way to minimize manual journal entries and enhance reporting capabilities. Using two examples relating to manual cash applications in A/R, the author demonstrates how to optimize substitution user exits. Financial postings are generated from many sources within R/3. While limited…...…

The author compares the two types of clearing functionality in SAP, clearing with or without posting. In addition, he lists steps that allow you to trace clearing transactions going backward as well as forward. At my last project site, I was asked after the cutover why double-clicking on the field Clearing doc produced inconsistent behavior…....…

Accounts receivable (A/R) is a communications process that is the lifeblood of any company. If your collections process isn’t running smoothly, you are putting your company at risk. Consider the typical problems of an A/R department. Deductions, underpayments, on account payments, and aged receivables keep collection specialists busy year-round. The author describes an enhancement in…...…

Accounts receivable (A/R) is a communications process that is the lifeblood of any company. If your collections process isn’t running smoothly, you are putting your company at risk. Consider the typical problems of an A/R department. Deductions, underpayments, on account payments, and aged receivables keep collection specialists busy year-round. The author describes an enhancement in…...…