How to Manage UNSPSC® Standard Codes Using SAP Classification System

How to Manage UNSPSC® Standard Codes Using SAP Classification System

The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code® (UNSPSC®), is an open, global, multi-sector standard for efficient, accurate classification of products and services. This code is generally assigned to materials and is used for company-wide visibility of spend analysis, cost-optimization and more.

Ask a Fixer: Options for Analyzing Profitability in ECC and S/4 HANA

EXCLUSIVELY FOR ASUG MEMBERS!

Start: Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 1:00 PM (CT), 2:00 PM (ET), 12:00 PM (MT), 11:00 AM (PT)

End: Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 1:00 PM (CT), 2:00 PM (ET), 12:00 PM (MT), 11:00 AM (PT)


Analyzing Profitability is a key task in any organization. It helps shed light on sales and profit information on various aspects of the market such as customers, geographic regions, product lines, and many more. There are several tools that can be used to analyze profitability in SAP, the most common being CO-PA (Controlling Profitability Analysis). However, many companies still resort to using spreadsheets and other manual methods (despite their plethora of issues) to accomplish this task. Is your company using the system to effectively analyze its profitability data?

Attend this live Q&A with Paul Ovigele, FICO Expert and Founder of ERPfixers, and Janet Salmon, Chief Product Owner for Management Accounting at SAP, where you can ask your most pressing questions, such as:

  • Can we use costing and account based CO-PA simultaneously?
  • What are the S/4 HANA implications of using CO-PA?
  • Is there an easy way of ensuring that CO-PA reconciles with the general ledger?
  • How do we do allocations within CO-PA?
  • Is there an advantage of using CO-PA over PCA (Profit Center Accounting) for Profitability Analysis?
  • What is the Top-Down Distribution in CO-PA and when should we use it?

 

WHAT IS "ASK A FIXER"?

Ask a Fixer is a live ASUG-hosted Q&A session with one of ERPfixers’ top-rated SAP experts (“Fixers”) in a specific module or topic. In this real-time discussion session, you have the opportunity to pose your specific questions to a Fixer, who will provide an immediate answer during the forum. This is a great way to get quick answers to your pressing issues, as well as learn from questions posted by other users during the forum.

Speakers:
Paul Ovigele, Author: Reconciling SAP CO-PA to the General ledger
Janet Salmon, Author: Controlling with SAP - Practical Guide

If you cannot attend: The webcast will be recorded. The link to the recording will be posted here and emailed to all registrants.

To register, please go to ASUG.

Q&A: So, What's the Deal with Material Ledger?

If there is any SAP topic that sends shivers down the spines of end users and experts alike, it is Material Ledger. There seems to be a lot of confusion around what is does, when you should use it and how to interpret its results. What's more, Material Ledger has integration points with several modules such as Financial Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution and Production Planning, and therefore, it has a pervasive impact on the system.

View the Live Q&A with two Material Ledger experts, Paul Ovigele and Rogerio Faleiros, where you can see some of the most pressing questions such as:

  • What is the best way to get Material Ledger reports out of the system?
  • Is Material Ledger needed in order to move to S/4 HANA?
  • How long does a Material Ledger project take?
  • Does material ledger work with materials valued at moving average price?
  • Why does Material Ledger not distribute some variances?
  • Can we use Material Ledger without Actual Costing

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Ask a Fixer: So, What's the Deal with Material Ledger?

Attend this live Q&A with two Material Ledger experts, Paul Ovigele and Rogerio Faleiros, where you can ask your most pressing questions such as:

  • What is the best way to get Material Ledger reports out of the system?
  • Is Material Ledger needed in order to move to S/4 HANA?
  • How long does a Material Ledger project take?
  • Does material ledger work with materials valued at moving average price?
  • Why does Material Ledger not distribute some variances?
  • Can we use Material Ledger without Actual Costing

MR11 – Maintaining the GR/IR Clearing Account

Right after a new implementation, everybody is concentrating on getting the invoicing right, and paying suppliers etc. and they tend to assume that the GR/IR is taking care of itself. Generally, if everything matches, it does, the problem is that not everybody understands that the quantity must match exactly to clear the GR/IR account. A typical problem where the invoices are posted manually, could be users struggling to post fractions correctly, for example where using the standard goods receipt process for a service. Another problem, where invoices and credit notes are posted via an interface, is not being able to distinguish between a price and quantity difference and using e.g. a credit memo to post all corrections.

Ask a Fixer: What Is On the BI Landscape with BW, SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA Analytics?

The Business Information (BI) module is one of the most dynamically changing areas, both within the SAP world and externally. This is partially due to the increased need for real-time business metrics on multiple devices, the rise in mergers and acquisitions, and the evolution of SAP HANA-only systems, which opens up an array of possibilities.

Attend this live Q&A with two of ERPfixers' BI and SAP HANA experts, Dmitry Kuznetsov and Mani Chinnaiah, where you can ask your most pressing questions such as:

Is there a future for classic BW?
When is best to use BW and when S/4HANA Modelling?
What is the up-side of S/4HANA Analytics over native HANA Modelling?
How to "build history" in HANA
Does it save time to implement HANA-based Data Warehouse?
Is HANA Live fading away?
What team-training is advised in the BI area?
How is predictive analytics integrated in SAP?
How is the Internet of Things (IoT) handled in HANA Cloud Platform?

Q&A: Demystifying the GR/IR Process

The Goods Receipt / Invoice Receipt (GR/IR) account is normally the most challenging account to manage. This is partly because of the number of transactions that are posted to it, and also because of numerous factors that could lead to its discrepancy.

Review the Q&A by Oona Flanagan, FICO Consultant and author of the SAP Press E-Bite “Invoice Verification with SAP: Payment Blocks in GR/IR Accounts”, where you can ask your most pressing questions such as:

- In transaction MIRO (post invoice) should I use a credit memo or a subsequent credit to post a credit note from the vendor?
- What is “Goods Receipt Based Invoice Verification” and when should I use it?
- What is the best way to post a “receipt” for a service?
- Why does my GR/IR account have a balance on it for a particular purchase order when the amount of the related invoices seems to be correct?
- When should I use Transactions MRBR to release an invoice and MR11 to write off a balance?

Using ABAP Coding In SAP Standard Query

It is hard to find an easy explanation about ABAP coding in standard queries . In some casesyou can’t easily attach additional information to a field in a Query or you need to call and ABAP function module to do an specific calculation, then adding coding to a local field may be a suitable solution.  To demonstrate this we are going to make a standard query with one table using ABAP Coding on it, instead of creating an infoset with three tables  inner join) as usual.

Q&A: Find Out About the New Functionality Available with SAP S/4HANA Finance

FIND OUT ABOUT THE NEW FUNCTIONALITY AVAILABLE WITH SAP S/4HANA FINANCE

We’ve all heard the buzz around SAP S/4HANA Finance. But what are the practical benefits that you can achieve from its new functionalities? Attend this live Q&A with SAP Mentor and Trainer, Ajay Maheshwari, where you can ask your most pressing questions such as:

- What is the Universal Journal?
- What are the new Tables available with S/4 HANA Finance?
- What is the impact of S/4 HANA Finance functionality on period closing?
- What is New Asset Accounting, and how is it different from the traditional Fixed Assets module?
- Is New GL migration necessary for SFIN, for the customers still on Classic GL?
- How different is Simple Finance from S/4 HANA Finance?
- What is Central Finance?

How to Enter Text In ABAP Via Editor With FM TERM_CONTROL_EDIT

Sometimes, users needs to enter some text directly (decisions, explanations, comments), for example, during the running of a module pool program. There is an easy way where the user can perform this action. Via MF TERM_CONTROL_EDIT. This MF shows a POP-UP with a text editor screen that is very simple and where the user can enter texts or perform the action of importing/exporting files.

External Debugging from EP (Enterprise Portal) and SRM Portal in SRM System

When we encounter errors/issues in an SRM document (like POs, shopping cart and SRM/EP related SAP objects), then we usually login to the SRM or EP portal to access these corresponding document. In order to analyze further - we also have to check the SRM system to crosscheck if the issue is with any custom code put into the BADI’s (Business AddIns).
To debug this scenario we would have to perform certain set of activity that is causing the error like ordering the PO etc. in the portal login which then calls the SRM system where the actual processing is done. To achieve this we will be using the external debugging option that SAP has provided. (In other words, we can say that to find the RCA we have to debug the SRM/EP objects in their corresponding landscape and that require few settings as explained below).

XBP - External Interface For Background Processing

XBP - stands for External Interface for Background Processing. It is used to enable external entity/system to schedule, start and monitor jobs inside SAP. In XBP, we have many RFC enabled function modules (provided by SAP) which can help external systems to control various background activities in job (like create, modify, delete, start, terminate, monitor etc. inside SAP).

Ask a Fixer: Find Out About the New Functionality Available with SAP S/4HANA Finance

Ask a Fixer is a live ASUG-hosted Q&A session with one of ERPfixers’ top-rated SAP experts (“Fixers”) in a specific module or topic. In this real-time discussion session, you have the opportunity to pose your specific questions to a Fixer, who will provide an immediate answer during the forum. This is a great way to get quick answers to your pressing issues, as well as learn from questions posted by other users during the forum. And it is exclusive to ASUG members only!