SAP SD Useful Notes

1, The sales areas include: sales organization, distribution channel, division.

2, A delivery is always carried out by one shipping point only. The shipping point is assigned to a plant. The loading points are assigned to shipping points.

3, A consumer is a natural, private business partner with whom you have a relationship involving the transfer of goods and services. you create cutomer master records for bussiness partners who are consumers.

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SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench(LSMW)

LSMW an abbreviation for Legacy System Migration Workbench is a tool in SAP that is used to migrate Legacy data into SAP.
It is a very important tool and easy to learn and master it. LSMW has a recording tool which can record the transaction and the fields to be uploaded. Thus upload of master data and transaction data is made very simple in this tool.You can use this tools in almost all modules for upload of master data and too some extent transaction data also. Thus in FI you can upload the following master data through this:Vendors, Customers, General Ledger, Asset master, Bank Master. You can upload Transaction balance through this i.e. an FI document.

In CO you can upload the following master data:Cost element, Cost center, Profit center, Activity types, Internal orders, Statisticalkey figures In other modules likewise you can upload other sets of master data. In this book creation of a Vendor master data with accounting view will be covered.

Overview

Create a project, sub project and object
Create Recordings
Maintain object attributes
Maintain Source Structure
Maintain source fields
Maintain Structure relations
Maintain field mapping and conversion rules
Specify file for upload and create a file for upload
Assign files
Read data
Display Read data
Convert data
Display converted data
Create Batch input session
Run Batch input session

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Product Costing Master Data

Overview:

In this paper it is covered the various master data required for the product costing module.Most of the master data is dependent on Production Planning Module(PP Module).

It is imperative for a Product costing consultant to understand the master data created in Production Planning module and its implications on product costing

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Currency Types in SAP

There are 5 types of currency in SAP r/3 system.

1. Group Currency: You define Group Currency when you define Client (SCC4)
2. Global Company Currency: You define Global Company Currency when you define Company that is assigned to your company code.

3. Hard Currency: YOU define Hard Currency when YOU define the Country that your Company code assigned to. A hard currency is used in countries with high inflation.

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Advantages in New General Ledger

Advanstages in new general ledger are:

1. The new General Ledger in mySAP ERP 2004 has the following advantages over the classic General Ledger in R/3 Enterprise:
a) In the new General Ledger, you can display the parallel accounting using parallel accounts (as in R/3) or using parallel ledgers. The FI standard functions and reports are available for all parallel ledgers.
b) The ‘Segment’ entity and the relevant reporting that are required for segment reporting according to IAS and U.S. GAAP are available in the new General Ledger.

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Differences Between LSMW and BDC

The differences between LSMW and BDC are as follows:

LSMW is generally for normal SAP applications, while BDC is mainly for any customized applications.

LSMW is a Non-SAP to SAP communication TOOL, whereas BDC is a SAP to SAP communication UTILITY.

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