In addition to displaying transaction codes in the SAP tree you could also display technical keys in the drop-down lists.  There are cases where the programmers or consultants will implement logic for automatic derivation of something based on purchase or sales order type or something else. In such cases end-users are usually using the full names where the programmers or the consultants will use mostly the technical keys. It could happen that for the duplication in the name of order type, but with different key as following example from IDES System.     In these …

Every professional which is working on business solution projects is faced with the responsibility to provide clear and understandable documentation. Having only text in your manuals is boring. Probably you will lose your readers in several minutes. To prevent that, you should include visualizations which gives much better representation of your thoughts and knowledge which you would like to distribute to others. Users understand the content of your documents much better when you provide visual representation of the written text. Making screenshots of what you are doing is usually done either by just hitting the “Print …

Getting familiar with SAP ERP system without having access to SAP system will be like getting driving license without driving a car. More importantly, if you are passionate enough like I described in the prologue and you will pursue SAP FICO Consultancy career it will be impossible without access to real system. You could read a lot of books and materials, watch many video tutorials and explanations, but without direct touch of SAP ERP you will certainly fail. It will be very good if you could find access to SAP IDES (Internet Demonstration and Evaluation …

SAP HANA (High Performance Analytic Appliance Database) is the new in-memory database advertised a lot by SAP in 2013 and it looks like it will promoted a lot in next few years. It is technology that could reshape the way you currently make reports, analyse information and as consequence taking decisions about your business. The problem is that it is  hard to be explained in several minutes for non-technical professionals like me and maybe you. I was looking for some answers on the net about it and found an interesting video in youtube which gives …

  SAP is providing different ERP solutions for different customer needs. Most of the SAP professionals are not familiar with all of the SAP ERP solutions that the software provider offers. There is one product which is known from all of them and it is SAP ERP 6.0 also known as SAP R/3(2,1)  or mySAP ERP. These are the names of the most advanced ERP Solution that SAP is providing. The name of the top product was changed several times in the past 30+ years. I will cover only the most well known solutions in …