Ask the Experts
Ask the Experts
SAP ERP software and modules
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What SAP product supports project-based teams?
SAP's SuccessFactors Dynamic Teams could help support project-based teams in the workplace and solve associated challenges. Learn more about the new capabilities. Continue Reading
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How can SAP IBP help address supply chain challenges?
As supply chain issues continue to affect companies, SAP's Integrated Business Planning could help improve users' supply chain management. Learn how. Continue Reading
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Should SAP users move from APO to IBP?
SAP is emphasizing its Integrated Business Planning product and moving its Advanced Planning and Optimization tools out of the spotlight. Learn whether users should transition to IBP. Continue Reading
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How can SAP's predictive analytics improve SCM?
SAP's predictive analytics could help users with their supply chain management as supply chain problems persist. Learn more about how these capabilities could benefit users. Continue Reading
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Which SAP software supports sustainability?
SAP is releasing new sustainability software to give organizations the environmental data they need to achieve climate targets. Learn more about each type. Continue Reading
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How does SAP Product Footprint Management work?
SAP Product Footprint Management can help companies assess and manage their environmental impact. Learn about some of the software's capabilities. Continue Reading
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How can SAP Work Zone for HR help enable a digital workplace?
Part of SAP SuccessFactors HXM, Work Zone for HR is a digital workspace meant to boost employee experience. Learn more about its features and functions. Continue Reading
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What is SAP Field Service Management and what can it do?
Organizations need to get more from their technicians and field workers, and SAP Field Service Management is meant to help. Learn what it can do. Continue Reading
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What Qualtrics integration questions should IT ask of SAP?
Qualtrics has certain technical integration challenges, and IT needs to address questions to uncover what they are and how they will affect the implementation. Here's a look. Continue Reading
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Does Infoporter aid SAP ERP HCM-Employee Central data migration?
Learn how SAP data migration tool Infoporter assists in moving from SAP ERP HCM to SuccessFactors Employee Central and why IT teams might find it helpful. Continue Reading
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What are some SAP license optimization best practices?
Optimizing SAP licenses is critical in today's insecure business landscape. Here are some best practices organizations can follow to lower costs and get the most from their investment. Continue Reading
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How can SuccessFactors CPM improve performance management?
Learn how SuccessFactors Continuous Performance Management can help more organizations realize that a good employee experience requires ongoing performance management. Continue Reading
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How can SAP Analytics Cloud help boost business agility?
SAP Analytics Cloud is meant to boost business agility, which business leaders need now more than ever. Take a look at the tool's features and how it might help. Continue Reading
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How is SAP Climate 21 meant to reduce CO2 emissions?
SAP released program to help companies go green and achieve better sustainability. Here's a look at Climate 21 and its Product Carbon Footprint Analytics. Continue Reading
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What do SAP leadership changes signify for company strategy?
SAP recently announced that Jennifer Morgan was no longer co-CEO and that Christian Klein would take the helm. Learn what that means for the company's strategy. Continue Reading
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How can SAP tools help during a COVID-19 economic downturn?
Managing cash flow, anticipating demand and getting insight into data are three critical ways to manage COVID-19's effects. Here are a few tools meant to provide those capabilities. Continue Reading
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How can Employee Central boost localized COVID-19 compliance?
The SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Localization is one of the systems' core benefits. Now, SAP has released COVID-19 legal changes monitoring. Continue Reading
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Is the SAP ECC support deadline extension important?
With an extension to the SAP ERP Central Component end-of-support deadline, customers are wondering what it means for them. Here's a look. Continue Reading
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What capabilities does Qualtrics EmployeeXM offer?
Employee Experience Management tools from Qualtrics are meant to give managers and HR concrete ways to gather feedback and support workers. Here's a look at five features. Continue Reading
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What are some key SuccessFactors onboarding capabilities?
Onboarding is critical to employee experience and a company's reputation as a talent destination. Learn about SuccessFactors functionality to help improve this important process. Continue Reading
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7 best practices for using SuccessFactors Talent Management
With tools to cover the employee journey, SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management has a wealth of functionality. Here's how to make sure you get the most out of it. Continue Reading
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How does SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding support crossboarding?
Onboarding a new hire is one thing, but what about when an employee simply moves from their role into a different one at the same company? Continue Reading
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How can SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding help retain employees?
A well-run onboarding process can also be a savvy retention tool. Here's how the SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding module can help provide a positive experience for new hires. Continue Reading
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Where can I get SAP SuccessFactors online training?
The SAP Learning Hub has a wealth of resources for training, certification and knowledge sharing for users and administrators of the SuccessFactors suite. Continue Reading
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What are the top 3 barriers to SAP S/4HANA migration?
Many SAP customers are taking a wait-and-see approach to the vendor's next-generation ERP business suite. One expert shares three reasons why. Continue Reading
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How can I use the V-Model with SAP Product Lifecycle Management?
The V-Model combines three highly interconnected components of product development: mechanics, electronics and informatics. Here are the steps for using it with SAP PLM. Continue Reading
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What are the best strategies for managing demand variability?
One of the main challenges for manufacturers, supply chain managers and materials planners is demand variability. Here are 10 strategies for gaining control. Continue Reading
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What are the steps for configuring SAP EWM slotting?
Slotting in SAP Extended Warehouse Management ensures that products are placed using the correct physical and storage conditions, and picked according to the right parameters. Continue Reading
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Which SAP IBP implementation methodology is best?
When it comes to SAP Integrated Business Planning, it's important to consider which methodology most closely matches the scope of the SAP IBP implementation. Continue Reading
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How does SAP PLM support the product validation process?
Checking and validating each step of product development helps ensure greater success and detects potential failure. Here's a look at how SAP PLM supports that process. Continue Reading
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Which supply chain optimization techniques can SAP ECC support?
Connecting scientific approaches to supply chain management with the technology tool of SAP ECC can help ensure a smoother flow of information and material. Continue Reading
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How does SAP Payroll Control Center improve efficiency?
The SAP SuccessFactors payroll front end can vastly improve efficiency and accuracy. It can also save time -- and your sanity -- by eliminating crunch-time surprises. Here's how. Continue Reading
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What can employees do with the SuccessFactors mobile app?
Self-service SuccessFactors features for employees and managers are numerous, and learning tools, including online course downloading, will run on some Android and iOS devices. Continue Reading
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What are the most important features of SAP SRM-MDM Catalog?
SAP Supplier Relationship Management-Master Data Management Catalog offers a number of features to help simplify cataloging tasks required to excel in today's complicated supply chains. Here's a look at six of them. Continue Reading
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What KPIs can assess demand-driven MRP when using SAP ERP?
Setting up demand-driven metrics and using analytics to monitor them can provide benefits such as helping to reduce working capital commitments and improving service levels. Continue Reading
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How is the recurring inspection process in SAP QM activated?
The recurring inspection functionality available in the SAP Quality Management component can help effectively maintain materials that are managed in batches and have expiration dates. Continue Reading
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What kitting process functionalities does SAP EWM offer?
The kitting process can be triggered either from SAP ECC or SAP EWM in kit-to-stock and kit-to-order business scenarios, and reverse kitting is available in EWM. Here's a look. Continue Reading
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What features does the SAP Sourcing component of SRM offer?
The Sourcing component in SAP Supplier Relationship Management is meant to offer end-to-end procurement for globalized and complex procurement processes. Here's what to know. Continue Reading
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What inventory valuation methods does SAP's MM offer?
Here's a look at five SAP inventory valuation reporting methods, how they can boost your inventory management efforts and why the financial account team should be involved. Continue Reading
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What are the core components of SAP IBP?
SAP IBP is a meant to ensure strategic, tactical and operational planning, provide comprehensive analytics and ensure complete business controls, all in an integrated environment. Continue Reading
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What inventory KPIs are available in SAP MRP Monitor?
MRP Monitor fills the inventory reporting and analyses gap that exists in SAP ECC, with analyses that enable materials planning success. Here's a look. Continue Reading
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Will SAP EWM-QM integration improve the quality inspection process?
Integrating SAP Extended Warehouse Management and Quality Management requires taking the time to allocate resources to carry out a successful project. Here are four areas on which to focus. Continue Reading
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What core components are included in an SAP APO overview?
SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization enables companies to better sense market demand, quickly react with timely supply, and meet and maintain higher service levels. Continue Reading
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What core components does the SAP ERP system include?
The SAP ERP system -- also known as ECC -- is the foundation for many companies' ERP implementations. Here's a look at its core components and what each one does. Continue Reading
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How can you reduce the bullwhip effect with demand-driven MRP?
Reducing the bullwhip effect requires a fundamental and strategic shift from supply-focused materials planning to demand-focused materials replenishment. Continue Reading
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How does ECC handle SAP Vendor Evaluation for services?
In SAP ECC, Vendor Evaluation gives you an easy way to evaluate vendor performance for services such as equipment maintenance or building maintenance. Here's a look. Continue Reading
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How can SAP CTM in SAP ATO improve supply chain management?
Capable-to-Match is a subcomponent of SAP APO that enables better demand and supply controls by balancing production constraints, supplier lead time and transportation lead time. Continue Reading
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What are the inventory KPIs that can be measured in SAP ECC?
Being able to measure inventory performance through regular monitoring provides the necessary visibility to improve them. Here's what you should know. Continue Reading
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What is the difference between SAP components, modules and applications?
The SAP landscape can be a confusing one, with the numerous acquisitions and constant rebranding of products. To clear up some confusion, here are the differences among three foundational areas. Continue Reading
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How does SAP Pool Asset Management improve the use of shared assets?
The Pool Asset Management tool enables easier scheduling and cost allocation of resources that employees share, such as vehicles. Here's a look at how it works. Continue Reading
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How can project planners decide between SAP PPM and SAP PS?
Web-based Project and Portfolio Management gives teams a way to pitch ideas and manage projects, but on-premises Project System still fits into the project landscape. Here's how. Continue Reading
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How can SAP Quality Notification help improve product quality?
SAP Quality Notification can help handle customer complaints for defective products, defective products produced in-house and defective materials supplied by a vendor. Here's a look at how it works. Continue Reading
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What are key features in discrete manufacturing production type?
Discrete manufacturers reap greater business benefits when they ensure planning, procurement, inventory, capacity and quality management are integral parts of their SAP ECC implementation. Continue Reading
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How can SAP Missing Parts improve the production planning process?
The SAP Missing Parts Information System can help prevent production or maintenance disruptions by alerting planners to impending material or component shortages. Continue Reading
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What are the benefits of using SAP capacity requirements planning?
An expert explains how companies can integrate SAP's capacity requirements planning functionality to optimize production when demand for products exceeds supply. Continue Reading
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How does Batch Information Cockpit support batch traceability?
An expert explains how SAP ERP Batch Information Cockpit traces material batches to help planners more efficiently manage defective materials and products. Continue Reading
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How does SAP ERP handle free goods procurement processes?
Learn how to handle business processes involving free samples or goods with no commercial value in SAP ERP. Continue Reading
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What are the benefits of using Release Strategy in SAP MM?
Making SAP MM's Release Strategy feature part of procurement processes can provide better business controls and reduce typical procurement headaches. Continue Reading
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How does SAP MM stock transport order help track goods shipment?
Stock transport order in SAP MM helps you transfer, track and monitor goods movement between supplying and receiving plants. Continue Reading
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Assigning personnel numbers in SAP HR
An SAP HR users wants to know how to assign a person to two different personnel numbers in SAP HR while generating a single invoice. Continue Reading
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Using SAP standard reports to track changes in SAP HR
A SearchSAP.com reader is looking for a standard report that can track changes made to the hierarchy of SAP HR with SAP transaction code PPOME. Continue Reading
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Using audit report to track changes to employee data in SAP HR
Find out how to track changes to employee data using an audit report in SAP HR, and learn how to configure the audit report to pick up changes to the data retroactively. Continue Reading
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Clicking on the SAPGUI logon button brings error message
I'm getting the following error message when I click on the logon button in the SAPGUI. I have already started the service in the management console. The lights turn from gray to yellow to green. Continue Reading
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Display the subtype text for an infotype
I am making an HR report in ABAP wherein I need to display the subtype texts for infotype 0045. How do I find the table where I can get this text field? Continue Reading
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Adding a navigational attribute to an existing InfoObject
We have a scenario where we would like to add one additional navigational attribute to an existing InfoObject (currently there are already two navigation attributes). My question is what needs to be done to the Planning Object Structure in APO DP ... Continue Reading
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Where to find your SAP installation number
Where can I find my installation number in the SAP system? Continue Reading
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Changing the hostname in a server migration
I am trying to do server migration from an existing server to a new server (though it is same OS). We will need to change the hostname for this. What is the best method or process for this task? Is there anywhere else it stores hostname info apart ... Continue Reading
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Retroactive accounting period differences
What is the difference between "earliest Retroactive accounting period" and "Retroactive accounting date"? Continue Reading