Solution Manager 7.0 Work Centers FAQ

This document contains a list of frequently asked questions regarding technical operations in SAP Solution Manager work centers. The relevant work centers are System Landscape Management, System Administration and System Monitoring. Answers to questions are categorized under;

  • General Questions
  • Setup of the Technical Operations Work Centers
  • Roles and Authorizations
  • Using the SAP NetWeaver Business Client as Frontend for SAP Solution Manager
  • Managing and Monitoring Systems using the Technical Operations Work Centers
  • Supported Platforms in Managed Landscapes

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Comprehensive SAP Configuration Guide

This is the most comprehensive Customization Guide i have ever met which consists of step step advise for each topics with screen prints and very clear definitions under:

  • General Settings

Define Countries, Set Currencies, Set Calendar etc…

  • Enterprise Structure

Define Company, Maintain Controlling Area, Define Location, Maintain Sales Office, Maintain Storage Location, Assign Company code to company/credit control area/controlling area, Assign Plant to Company code, Assign Sales Organization to Company code, Assign Purchasing Organization to Company code etc…

  • Logistics-General

Configuring Material Master,Field Selection, Maintain Company Codes for Materials Management, Material Types, Define Material Groups/Divisions/Material Statuses/Number Ranges for EANs/UPCs (Barcode), Maintain Authorizations and Authorization Profiles etc…

What is a Statistical Key Figure (SKF) in SAP?

The ‘Statistical Key Figure (SKF)’ is used as the basis (tracing factor) for making allocations (assessments/distributions). They are the statistical data such as number of employees, area in square meters, etc. You will make use of a SKF when you are faced with a situation where it is not possible to use any other conventional method or measure to arrive at the share of costs to be allocated to cost centers.

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Basic Concepts of SAP Materials Management – Movement Types

This document is provided as an introductory material after SAP Implementation for a university to give basic core concepts of Materials Management module. After reading this document you will be able to:

  • Understand the relationship between the organizational structure and master data
  • Use SAP transaction codes to execute various goods movements
  • Create a personal favorites list of frequently used movement types
  • Understand the relationship between goods movements and movement types
  • Execute goods movements in SAP
  • Cancel/ reverse goods movements
  • Execute a return to vendor transaction and issue goods using specific transaction codes to cost centers, work orders, reservations and scrap
  • Transfer materials from one location to another
  • Pick and issue materials
  • Differentiate between a stock and non-stock material

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Overview of Product Costing & Material Ledger in SAP

After reading this document, you will acquire an overview of Product Cost Planning, Cost Object Controlling within SAP. You will also observe a product life cycle from perspective of Product Cost Planning and understand period oriented product cost controlling.

This material also covers Material Ledger that you will get to understand Actual Costing function. You will learn how to revaluate inventories of semi finished products, and finished products with calculated actual costs or accrue variances.

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