This book provides you with highly detailed information on all of the most important BI features of the new SAP NetWeaver 2004s Release. Readers gain a profound understanding of SAP BI and quickly learn how to master the new release, while avoiding costly errors. Familiar subjects like data modeling, ETL, web reporting, and planning are combined with expert insights on essential new BI functions and core concepts, making this reference an invaluable companion for your daily work. The authors provide exclusive details on advanced developments in BEx Analyzer and BEx Web Application Designer, as well as the BEx Report Designer, BI-integrated planning, the BI Accelerator and the SAP Visual Composer, ensuring that your most important questions are addressed with practical guidance. Real-life examples, volumes of screen captures and detailed graphics, as well as step-by-step instruction, enable you to quickly and easily familiarize yourself with all of the new BI functions. The book is intended for SAP consultants, team members and managers in the areas of IT, BI, and controlling.

An SAP BW system is only as good as its data models. Have you mastered the skill? This book will teach you what you need to know to become an expert in the art of data modeling. Build flexible models that not only satisfy existing requirements, but are positioned to adapt and grow with a company's changing needs. This is your must-have guide!

Are you a human resources professional or consultant using, or considering using, SAP E-Recruiting? If so, this is the one book you need. The book is organized in a logical sequence to help you explore SAP E-Recruiting and assist you with the implementation, beginning with an introduction to general recruitment processes. From there you’ll learn about more technical topics such as SAP configuration and implementation specifi cs, as well as the enhancements that are possible within the flexible SAP NetWeaver® platform. You’ll also review a wide range of functional and technical subjects, including configuration, portal, search, security, reporting, vendor services, and integration. At the conclusion of the book, you’ll explore lessons learned from other SAP E-Recruiting implementations, and find useful information for your project team’s reference.

This practical reference introduces you to the BI Integrated Planning tool, an integral part of the SAP NetWeaver 2004s platform. Avoid spending countless hours researching the various options available in the BI Integrated Planning tool - as all the resources you need are right here in this convenient guide. Readers learn how best to configure, develop, and manage a planning application, plus much more. The authors take you on a journey, the goal of which is to make BI Integrated Planning for Finance more accessible. Real-world, practical examples help you learn vital concepts via a step-by-step, easy-to-understand approach. You'll quickly enhance your understanding of the importance of planning and then leverage that knowledge to build a complete financial planning application using SAP BI Integrated Planning. The highly-detailed examples help you develop a deeper understanding of the various features and allow you the opportunity to then reproduce them in your own environment, showing you firsthand how the BI Integrated Planning tool really works. Plus, readers also get expert guidance on the fundamentals of developing their own custom financial planning applications. Whether you're a functional analyst, a consultant, a business manager or a developer, this book goes beyond the basics to help you build world class planning applications in support of your organization's most important business processes.

This comprehensive reference provides you with a real-world understanding of the SAP ERP Financials application. You'll learn how to design and configure an SAP ERP Financials solution to satisfy your business requirements, including the more complex areas of configuration, and you'll explore how to manage data migration as part of an SAP ERP Financials implementation. Using the real-world, holistic business information provided in this book, you'll learn everything from the general areas of SAP ERP Financials and how they fit in the SAP landscape, to how the new General Ledger can work for you. This invaluable guide is the one resource you need to understand the configuration and design process, the enterprise structure, reporting, data migration, Accounts Payable and Receivable, integration with other components, and all other critical areas of SAP ERP Financials. SAP ERP Financials: Configuration and Design is a must-have tool for all implementation teams, project managers, and consultants working on an SAP ERP Financials upgrade or new implementation.

Navigate the complex SAP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD) module with ease, using this book as your guide. Get a practical overview of SAP SD and learn how to apply SD to your own company's business model. This unique reference demystifies often misunderstood and confusing topics like data transfer, notification, SD's influence on Materials Management (MM), and the SD Supply Chain Extension. In addition, you'll benefit from expert insights into how SD integrates and interacts with other key modules such as Financials and Controlling (FI/CO), and more. Readers of this book can hit the ground running with in-depth information on key functionalities not fully utilized by many companies. Leverage your SD implementation, while learning how to troubleshoot common problems. Plus, learn the ins and outs of SD master data, data transfer and communication, special order processing, and much more. Whether you're looking for functional information or for in-depth technical details, this book is guaranteed to be an invaluable resource.

This book provides targeted guidance for actual costing with the material ledger.  The book starts by offering a concise introduction to actual costing and the material ledger and then moves into very practical, usable content for starting, configuring, and using the material ledger for actual costing activities.