Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
About This Book
Part I The SAP Enterprise
1 Brief History of the SAP Enterprise
1.1 Getting Started: From Realtime Financials to SAP R/3
1.2 SAP from the Turn of the Millennium to the Present
2 How Does SAP Software Work?
2.1 What Is Standard Software?
2.2 Adapting the SAP System to an Enterprise
2.3 What If the Standard Isn’t Sufficient?
2.4 Orientation toward the Process
2.5 Real Time
2.6 Central Data: Decentralized Processing
3 Overview of the Most Critical SAP Products
3.1 Complete Package: SAP Business Suite
3.2 The Central Component: SAP ERP
3.2.1 Accounting
3.2.2 Human Resources
3.2.3 Logistics
3.3 Maintaining Customer Relationships: SAP Customer Relationship Management
3.4 Optimizing Supplier Relationships: SAP Supplier Relationship Management
3.5 The Entire Lifecycle of a Product: SAP Product Lifecycle Management
3.6 For all Supply Chain Elements: SAP Supply Chain Management
3.7 Industry Solutions
3.8 Special Software for Medium-Sized Enterprises
3.8.1 SAP Business One
3.8.2 SAP Business All-in-One
3.8.3 SAP Business ByDesign
3.9 The Next Software Generation: SAP S/4HANA
3.10 The Technical Basis: SAP NetWeaver
3.10.1 User Integration
3.10.2 Information Integration
3.10.3 Process Integration
3.10.4 Application Server
Part II Basic Principles of System Operation
4 Organizational Structures and Master Data
4.1 Organizational Structures
4.2 Master Data
4.3 Try It!
5 Logging On to the SAP System
5.1 SAP Logon
5.1.1 Establishing a Connection to the SAP System
5.1.2 Configuring Connection Settings for the SAP System
5.2 Logging On for the First Time
5.3 Logging On to the System
5.4 The SAP Graphical User Interface
5.4.1 Menu Bar
5.4.2 Standard Toolbar
5.4.3 Title Bar
5.4.4 Command Field
5.4.5 Status Bar
5.5 Logging Off the SAP System
5.6 Try It!
6 Navigating in the SAP System
6.1 Overview of the Navigation Options
6.2 Navigating via the SAP Easy Access Menu
6.3 Navigating via Transaction Codes
6.4 Entering Data in the SAP System
6.4.1 Tabs
6.4.2 Screen Areas
6.4.3 Fields
6.4.4 Buttons
6.4.5 Function Keys
6.4.6 Checkboxes
6.4.7 Radio Buttons
6.4.8 Dialog Windows
6.5 Input Help
6.6 Working with Sessions
6.7 Try It!
7 Maintaining the System Layout and User Data
7.1 Creating Links on the Desktop
7.2 Maintaining Your Own User Data
7.3 Creating Favorites
7.3.1 Adding Transactions to the Favorites
7.3.2 Adding Websites to the Favorites
7.3.3 Adding Files or Programs to the Favorites
7.3.4 Deleting Favorites
7.3.5 Importing and Exporting Favorites
7.4 Prepopulating Parameters for Fields
7.5 Holding, Setting, and Deleting Data
7.6 Adapting the User Interface
7.7 Try It!
8 Creating Evaluations and Reports
8.1 Using Standard Reports in the SAP System
8.2 Finding Standard Reports
8.2.1 Searching for Reports
8.2.2 Calling Reports in the SAP Easy Access Menu
8.3 Exporting Lists to Microsoft Excel
8.4 Using Variants
8.5 Other Reporting Options in SAP ERP
8.6 Try It!
9 Printing
9.1 Overview of the Print Functions
9.2 Using Spool Requests
9.3 Changing the Default Printer
9.4 Creating Screenshots
9.5 Try It!
10 Automating Tasks
10.1 Background Jobs
10.2 Batch Processing (Batch Input)
10.2.1 Creating Batch Input Sessions
10.2.2 Processing Batch Input Sessions
10.3 Try It!
11 Working with Messages and Business Workplace
11.1 Overview of the Business Workplace
11.2 Sending Short Messages
11.3 SAP Business Workflow
11.4 Folders
11.5 Office Organization
11.5.1 Setting Up Auto Reply
11.5.2 Managing Appointments
11.6 Try It!
12 Electronic Data Interchange
12.1 Overview of the Electronic Data Interchange Process
12.2 Electronic Data Interchange in Practice
12.3 Try It!
13 Using Help Functions
13.1 Field Helps and Search Windows
13.1.1 Help via Function Keys
13.1.2 Search Windows
13.2 The Help Menu
13.2.1 Application Help
13.2.2 SAP Library
13.2.3 Glossary
13.2.4 Release Notes
13.2.5 SAP Service Marketplace
13.2.6 Creating Support Messages
13.3 Customizing the Help
13.4 Try It!
14 The Role and Authorization Concept
14.1 Authorizations
14.2 Roles
14.3 Try It!
Part III Most Important Processes in the SAP System
15 Materials Management
15.1 Materials Management Tasks
15.2 Organizational Structures
15.3 Master Data
15.3.1 Material Master
15.3.2 Vendor Master
15.3.3 Purchasing Information Record
15.4 Purchase Order
15.5 Inventory Management
15.6 Invoice Verification
15.7 Automatic Material Requirements Planning
15.8 Standard Reporting
16 Sales and Distribution
16.1 Sales and Distribution Tasks
16.2 Organizational Structures
16.3 Master Data
16.3.1 Creating Customer Master Records
16.3.2 Creating a Material Master Record
16.3.3 Creating Condition Master Records
16.4 Sales Order Processing
16.4.1 Entering Sales Orders
16.4.2 Creating Deliveries
16.4.3 Invoicing
16.5 Availability Check
16.6 Complaint Processing (Returns)
16.7 Standard Reporting
17 SAP ERP Financials
17.1 Financial Accounting Tasks
17.2 Organizational Structures
17.3 Creating the Financial Statement and Profit and Loss Statement
17.4 Processing Vendor Invoices
17.5 Processing Customer Invoices
17.6 Evaluation
18 Controlling
18.1 Controlling Tasks
18.2 Organizational Structures
18.3 Overhead Cost Controlling
18.4 Product Cost Controlling
18.5 Profitability Analysis
18.6 Evaluations
19 Human Resources
19.1 Tasks in Human Resources
19.2 Organizational Management
19.3 Recruitment
19.4 Personnel Administration
19.5 Talent Management
19.6 Time Management
19.7 Payroll
19.8 Standard Reporting
20 Case Study
20.1 The Sample Business
20.2 The Enterprise Structure
20.3 Creating a Material Master Record
20.4 Creating Vendor Master Records
20.5 Creating Purchasing Info Records
20.6 Creating a Purchase Order
20.7 Receiving Goods
20.8 Verifying an Invoice
20.9 Displaying Open Items (Optional)
20.10 Posting Outgoing Payments
20.11 Creating a Customer Master
20.12 Adding Sales Data to the Material Master Record
20.13 Creating Conditions
20.14 Creating a Standard Order
20.15 Delivering and Issuing Goods
20.16 Creating an Invoice
20.17 Posting Incoming Payments
A Abbreviations
B Glossary
C Buttons, Key Combinations, and Function Keys
C.1 Key Combinations
C.2 Function Keys
C.3 Buttons
C.3.1 Standard Toolbar
C.3.2 General Functions
C.3.3 F4 Help
C.3.4 Reports
D The Author
Index
Service Pages
Legal Notes