What is a System Organization Model?

When implementing enterprise software solutions, three dependent concepts must always be addressed during the design phase:
1.Organization Model,
2.Business Processes, and
3.Master Data.

 This technical note addresses the first of the three critical elements, the System Organization Model. What is it, and why is it important.

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What is BPM And What are Benefits

These are questions that are often addressed to our consultants:
1. What are the benefits of business process management and improvement? Should I invest in a tool to support such an activity?
2. What are the specific benefits of using a tool in support of an enterprise system implementation project?

This technical note provides the context for answering the questions. To develop this context, background information, and a sequence of related questions are proposed and answered. This is followed by the Enterprise Integration, Inc. (EII) response to the two above primary questions.

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What is SAP Business Blueprint?

The SAP Business Blueprint phase includes a number of activities, events, milestones and deliverables as described in ASAP (Accelerated SAP) Roadmaps and generally classified as having overall project management significance. The Business Blueprint is the output (or product) of the project design tasks as they are managed in the appropriate tools – the SAP Solution Manager and the ARIS Business Architect for SAP NetWeaver – and the subsequent enterprise design processes. The tools support an architecture driven implementation through a tight integration of the solution (SAP) and the enterprise solution architecture (ARIS).

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SAP Materials Roundup 3

This weeks materials are:

10 Golden Rules of ALE Optimization
Financial Terms in SAP
Integrated Accounting in ERP Environment
Materials Management Terms in SAP
Relevant Transaction Codes
Review Questions for PP
SAP Functional Terms
SAP Variant Configuration

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10 Consulting Notes for CO-PA Analysts

This note gives an overview of the informational notes for CO-PA. The purpose of these notes is to give you further advice on various topics in CO-PA which have turned out to be difficult to understand from a user’s point of view. Notes compiled:

  • Free of Charge Deliveries – Costs in CO-PA
  • Characteristics from SD transaction Tables to CO-PA
  • SD Partner functions in CO-PA
  • Product Hierarchies in CO-PA Reports
  • + / – Signs in CO-PA and Conditions with plus/minus signs
  • SD Condition Types to CO-PA Value Fields
  • Valuation with Condition Technique in CO-PA
  • Characteristics from Variant Configuration
  • Costs for Third-party Processing
  • More than 120 value fields

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SAP SD Basics: Overview Document

Find below a document which will introduce you SAP SD Module basics, processes within detail.

Contents:

  • Introduction to SAP R/3 and the ERP Concept
  • Create a Basic Order in R/3
  • Creating Deliveries
  • Partner Functions
  • Billing
  • Applying Payments
  • Free items
  • Examining Transaction Types in the IMG
  • Cash Sales and rush orders
  • Inquiries and Quotations
  • Packing in Deliveries
  • Delivery Due Lists
  • Quantity Contracts and Scheduling Agreements
  • Pricing
  • Customer Complaints: Returns and Credit Memos

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