Flat files vs. EDI
You can if your vendor agrees to it. The EDI process adds some security and assurance that that transactions have made it. Some vendors will only want to receive the transaction through a trading partner however, so it may be to you advantage to send as much data as you can to get a price [...]

View Answer   |  April 4, 2005  12:48 PM
ERP, SAP development

Simple Object Oriented Code for ALV list
1. If you are doing a simple list – use the function module reuse_alv_grid_display. This function module is well documented. 2. A very nice document exists on ALV grid on the SDN page. This document is called “An Easy Reference for ALV Grid Control.pdf”. https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/webas/abap/An%20Easy%20Reference%20for%20ALV%20Grid%20Control.pdf

View Answer   |  April 4, 2005  7:33 AM
ABAP

Using IDoc to automate entry into transactions FB70 and FB75.
have a look at FIDCC* Regards, Clemens Li

View Answer   |  April 3, 2005  7:35 AM
mySAP Application Link Enabling, mySAP Financials, SAP, SAP development

Loading CSV files into Oracle tables
There are 6 ways to do it: 1. There is a software, called Oraxel (or something like that) which connect Excel tables with oracle (and vise versa) 2. You could export your Excel tables into Access and link Access – Oracle tables through ODBC 3. You could do such export with OEM (Oracle Enterprize Manager) [...]

View Answer   |  April 19, 2013  4:13 PM
Corporate Financial Applications, Database Management Systems, ERP, Financials, Human resource applications, Informix, iReceivables, Microsoft Access, Oracle, Payables, Procurement, Projects

CO-PA Reporting
It is possible but you may not be able to use business content COPA. Most likely you will need to create a custom COPA model unless you are lucky enough that the legacy SD data matches the data structure of SAP SD. I doubt this is likely. Regards, dswope

View Answer   |  April 1, 2005  8:53 AM
Business Information Warehouse, mySAP Financials

Error in Posting a Parked Document
Hi joycesvp, my suggestion are going to sound like an IT suggestion (no offence), but i had a posting parked document problem too related to a lease back (doc type KR too). My solution: after several atempts i tried a simple thing… create a new document (delete the old parked document) and it worked fine [...]

View Answer   |  March 30, 2005  10:07 AM
ERP, mySAP Accounting, mySAP Financials, R/3, SAP

Error on PA40 Retirement Action
Have the user repeat the action and when encountering the error message, type trans code /NSU53 to display what authorization is being checked and the authorizations available to the user. This should help you troubleshoot the problem. Good luck, Patrick

View Answer   |  March 28, 2005  8:48 AM
SAP

Internet Address for user & HR Master Data
I’d be interested in this question also – currently, we also do this procedure manually. Sharman Devlin

View Answer   |  March 28, 2005  7:29 AM
mySAP Human Resources, SAP

sap installation error…
Sounds as if either the installation cd’s were not supplied at the correct location or the installation drives were not defined the way they should be. Did you copy the cd’s to hard disk before installation? Did you check the identification files on the cd’s you inserted and did you compare their content to the [...]

View Answer   |  March 28, 2005  3:59 AM
Basis, R/3, SAP

changing a background
On main screen (just after logging) select Extras->Administration information or press Shift+Ctrl+F8 and You got instruction.

View Answer   |  March 24, 2005  10:27 AM
Basis

Authorization in SAP
AFAIR there an trace possible, i.e. You should switch on tracing for check-authorization operations then go through sample procedure (create SO). Then in a trace file You will have all objects needed.

View Answer   |  March 24, 2005  10:03 AM
Basis, SAP, SAP development, Security

Accessing previous addresses for business partners in SAP
If you go to table VBPA with your sales document number, you will find the partners on your sales order. Each of the partners has an address number associated with it. You can then use this address number to search the ADRC table and get your addresses that are tied to that document number. Hope [...]

View Answer   |  March 24, 2005  8:28 AM
R/3, SAP

Directory structure – SAP Installation
From past experince I would recomend using standard SAP structure. Use the <DBSID> as your indicater of Production ie PRn, PBn (P for production, R for R3, n a number or letter if you have more than one of any environment. Quality Assurance (QR1 QB1) Development (DR1 DB1)and so on.

View Answer   |  March 24, 2005  7:44 AM
Basis, SAP

changing from ABAP to BW
I am a newbie myself, If I find out anything will let you know. Thank you.

View Answer   |  March 24, 2005  7:15 AM
Business Information Warehouse, Career development, SAP

CRM 4.0 v’s Customised Mobility Sales Solution
You have many things to consider. First why are you considering a custom CRM solution? Is your current CRM not doing everything you want? Does the new version not do what you want? Is there another product available that does what you want? A custom solution will take time to develop and most likely cost [...]

View Answer   |  March 23, 2005  9:24 AM
Data analysis, Development, Microsoft Windows, Sales force automation applications, SAP

Using SAP EDI
You need to use Idocs. That’s SAP’s equivalent of EDI. You cannot use BAPIs or RFCs to create an EDI document although the Idocs do occasionally make use of them. Another alternative is ALE which also uses Idocs to send data to remote systems like your vendors, though this is more usually used I think [...]

View Answer   |  March 21, 2005  8:01 PM
Basis, EDI, ERP, R/3, SAP, SAP development

SAP User Menu & Portals
Firstly, user roles in the Portal and user roles in R/3 are two entirely different things, and so are the role menus. Theoretically you don’t need to be using roles in R/3 4.6c to be able to start using the portal. When a role is built in the Portal it has it’s own menu (independant [...]

View Answer   |  March 18, 2005  12:36 AM
R/3, SAP, Security

SAP Entry
Hello, Nabusman. You may want to check out TechTarget’s Expert Answer Center on this one… Ed Tittel, renowned career expert, answered quite a few SAP career questions while he was the spotlighted expert back in October. His answers are here: http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/eac/expertAnswersByTopic/0,295207,sid63_tax297877_idx0,00.html Browse away! –Dana —————————— Dana L. McCurley Editor, ExpertAnswerCenter.com Editor, ITKnowledge Exchange dmccurley@techtarget.com AIM: [...]

View Answer   |  March 17, 2005  12:05 PM
SAP

Writing a Payroll Rule
You want to probably use the AMT operation. Goto transaction PDSY and look at document class “Operation (Payroll)” and Obj. name “AMT”. click on ‘operands’. and click on 1st variant. You’ll see that AMT=C….. is for reading the CRT table. You can make this rule wage type specific based on how you create the rule [...]

View Answer   |  March 16, 2005  10:13 AM
SAP

Calling an RFC/BAPI from a web page
what programming language you are using exactly in your web page (eg. java)? or are you using ITS?

View Answer   |  March 15, 2005  9:02 PM
SAP