Lockbox Processing Configuration in SAP

Lockbox is an account in the House Bank which handles the receipt and processing of incoming payments in SAP. This service is mainly provided by banks in the United States. When ever a sales is made party will credit payment to this lock box account in terms of certain invoice in house bank so in that scenario bank will update the data every day by sending a BAI1 and BAI2 (bank adminstrative institute ) files for you to import and apply in Accounts Receivable.
In the following, you will find a step by step configuration procedures of Lockbox Process.

  • Define House Banks (FI12)
  • Define Lockboxs of House Banks (OB10)
  • Define Control Parameters (OBAY)
  • Define Posting Data (OBAX)
  • Define Tolerance Groups for Employees (OBA4)
  • Define Tolerances (Customers/Vendors) (OBA3)
  • Define Accounts for Overpayments/Underpayments (OBXL)
  • Import the Lockbox File (FLB2)

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SAP Press Books Sample Chapter Downloads – Part 4

Before starting this series, I also did not have any chance to view most of the sample chapters shared here.  Actually it helps a lot me too and they are now most valuable documents in my archive. This part of series also comes in handy ones you should not miss

  • What are the benefits of Structural Authorizations in SAP HCM ?
  • Creating your first program in ABAP Editor
  • Segment Reporting in SAP Financial Reporting
  • Critical aspects of Internal Tables processing in ABAP
  • An Overview of Bank Accounting in SAP Financials

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Upgrading from BW 3.x to BI 7.0 Guide

The BW upgrade is necessary  based on clients decision use SAP BW as the corporate standard data warehousing tool. The current BW3.1 version of the software is nearing its end of life and would require additional and non-standard support from the vendor.

To remind you, SAP BW was known as SAP BI from the BW 7.0 onwards. But recently SAP has changed naming from SAP BI to SAP BW again. There are also some more confusing naming changes every beginners should be aware.

In this document author shares his experiences during the upgradation process of BW 3.x system to BI 7.0.  As part of this project you will see also following processes

  • Database and operation system will be also upgraded
  • Production server hardware will be augmented
  • Development and test environment servers and storage will be replaced with two upgraded full-sized environments
  • Existing development and test architecture will be decommissioned and evaluated for use on other ongoing projects as needed

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Authorization Concept in SAP

The authorizations for users are created using roles and profiles. The administrator creates the roles, and the system supports him or her in creating the associated authorizations.

An authorization is a permission to perform a certain action in the SAP System. The action is defined on the basis of the values for the individual fields of an authorization object. When a user logs on to a client of an SAP system, his or her authorizations are loaded in the user context. The user context is in the user buffer( in the main memory) of the application Server.

This document details step by step procedure for creating roles through PFCG transaction. It would be useful giving a try to reading PFCG Concept in SAP. You will also be provided advanced concepts

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SAP Controlling (CO) Business Blueprint Sample

SAP Business Blueprint is the 2nd project phase which provides a comprehensive view of main business processes in a 5 phase SAP Implementation. Questionnaires are used to prepare a SAP Business Blueprint with collecting some information to meet business requirements.In case you have not seen yet, you can also download Finance Business Blueprint sample from my site.

In this document, you will find a SAP Controlling Business Blueprint sample. You will find AS IS (The current process used in sysyem ) and TO BE ( new process to be used after new system implementation ) and Gap Anaylsis for each covered business processes.

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A Great List of SAP MM End-User Manuals

Here I’m with another End-User manual bundle for the processes of SAP Materials Management. Before you download these, i strongly suggest you to download previous end-user manuals if you missed which are Purchase Requisitioning, Purchase Requisition Approver and Invoice Verification.

In this post you will find download links for many daily used processes in

  • Inventory Management
  • Logistics Invoice Verification
  • Purchasing

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SAP Press Books Sample Chapter Collections – Part 3

If you are new to this series, click to see all parts created under SAP Press Sample Chapter Downloads. Here is the third part of series you will find useful information about

  • Enterprise SOA definition and Enterprise Data Management’s role in it
  • An extended overview of SAP ERP HCM Components
  • Specs and business processes for 850-Interface ORDERS interface within EDI
  • An Overview of Procurement in Logistics
  • Special features of SAP APO and Advantages of planning with APO-PP/DS.
  • Introduction to SAP Upgrade Tools

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