Dive into this best-selling guide on SAP Material Master! Walk through basic concepts on how to tailor the SAP Material Master to your production environment, as well as learn detailed information on material master settings and their impact. This book provides the opportunity for readers to better understand their unique environment and how to make the SAP Material Master work for them. Veteran SAP Materials Management (MM) expert Matthew Johnson provides best practices for how to approach common scenarios, and offers cost-saving tips. Find out why planning is the most important (and often overlooked) aspect of understanding the SAP Material Master. Review how material master settings impact FI/CO and other SAP modules. This second edition incorporates feedback from first-edition readers and solution updates, along with a new section on subcontracting. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, the author brings readers up to speed on best practices for optimizing use of the SAP Material Master. - Fundamental SAP Material Master concepts - How settings impact other modules in SAP - Cost-effective procurement and planning techniques - Inventory and quality management best practices

Delve into this updated best-selling guide on SAP Material Master! Updated to cover key updates to the SAP Material Master in SAP S/4HANA, this guide walks through basic concepts on how to tailor the SAP Material Master to your production environment, as well as learn detailed information on material master settings and their impacts. This book provides the opportunity for readers to better understand their unique environments and how to make the SAP Material Master work for them. This guide provides best practices for how to approach common scenarios, and offers cost-saving tips. Find out why planning is the most important (and often overlooked) aspect of understanding the SAP Material Master. Review how material master settings impact FI/CO and other SAP modules. This third edition incorporates feedback from readers, and includes solution updates, new information on advanced planning views, extended service parts planning views, and the SAP Fiori app for Material Master. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, the authors bring readers up to speed on best practices for optimal use of the SAP Material Master. - Fundamental SAP Material Master concepts - How settings impact other modules in SAP - Cost-effective procurement and planning techniques - Inventory and quality management best practices

Managing the movement of goods from one place to another is just one small requirement of a Transportation Management (TM) software. To understand the complete process, there is so much more to consider. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the transportation processes supported by SAP TM 9.3 including functional highlights, system architecture options (including HANA), and integration aspects. Dive into planning, execution, and tracking processes and detailed configuration. Get best practices on how to best set up capacity management functionality and learn more about charge calculation and settlement. This hands-on guide is for those new to SAP TM, as well as experienced solution consultants, and includes step-by-step descriptions and screenshots. - A Comprehensive Overview of All of the Processes Enabled by SAP TM - Configuration Best Practices for All Modes of Transport - Instructions for Integrating Transportation Requirements - Tips on Integration with SAP ERP, EWM, GTS, EH&S, EM - Options for Manual, Semi-automated, and Completely Automated Planning

SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) helps companies maximize supply chain performance and reduces the overall cost and risk of global trade by ensuring regulatory compliance, accelerating trade activity, and enabling trade compliance automation. This updated 2nd edition to Practical Guide to SAP GTS helps the user navigate the system, while offering compliance insight to maximize their return on investment. Dive into difficult-to-navigate menus and review available functionality. Using screenshots and detailed instructions, readers will obtain best practices for meeting and exceeding compliance standards. Includes suggested audit plans to sustain long term compliance. The book is current to version SAP GTS for HANA GTS e4H and explores GTS Version for HANA and its new features in detail. In addition, includes information on the new Fiori-based Apps and UX developments, new features, and process improvements. This book covers:

• Tips and tricks for leveraging SAP GTS to automate trade compliance
• Overview of regulatory requirements and compliance suggestions
• Step-by-step walkthrough of business processes
• Review of SAP GTS for HANA GTS e4H with screenshots

SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) helps companies maximize supply chain performance and reduces the overall cost and risk of global trade by ensuring regulatory compliance, accelerating trade activity, and enabling trade compliance automation. The Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part II dives into customs management and preference processing. Explore how to leverage self-filing, using a broker model, and adopting a free trade agreement to improve ROI. The book is current to version 10.1 and explores version 11.0 and its new features including Fiori apps and UX. - Best practices for leveraging SAP GTS for trade compliance - Fundamentals of preference implementation and system set up - How self-filing, broker models and free trade agreements can improve ROI - Review of Version 11.0 with screenshots

Don't just read about SAP BW - get your hands dirty with this updated, must-have guide. Tackle all of the common tasks you'll encounter when working with SAP BW, from creating objects, to extracting and transforming data, to mastering the BEx tools. Keep your skills sharp with information new to this edition, including updates for SAP BW 7.4 and BW on SAP HANA. And follow along with a comprehensive case study to cement your knowledge. Detailed Steps for Working with SAP BW Get click-by-click instructions with guiding screenshots that will answer your questions and get you working in your own SAP BW system. Supplements and Bonus Material Find helpful lists of transaction codes, SAP Notes, data for the case study, and sample code downloads. Content New to this Edition Comprehensive updates include information on planning with DSOs, query execution in BW on HANA, SAP Lumira, and so much more. Highlights: InfoObjects Master data DataStore objects InfoCubes InfoProviders Data extraction BEx Query Designer BEx Web Application Designer Reporting and analysis Planning applications SAP HANA