Using SAP : an introduction for beginners and business users

About This Book  Structure of the Book  Working with This Book  SAP's Training System  Preparing for User Certification  Acknowledgments  The SAP Enterprise  Brief History of the SAP Enterprise  Getting Started: From Realtime Financials to SAP R/3  SAP from the Turn of the Millennium to the Present  How Does SAP Software Work?  What Is Standard Software?  Adapting the SAP System to an Enterprise  What If the Standard Isn't Sufficient?  Orientation toward the Process  Real Time  Central Data: Decentralized Processing  Overview of the Most Critical SAP Products  Complete Package: SAP Business Suite  The Central Component: SAP ERP  Maintaining Customer Relationships: SAP Customer Relationship Management  Optimizing Supplier Relationships: SAP Supplier Relationship Management  The Entire Lifecycle of a Product: SAP Product Lifecycle Management  For all Supply Chain Elements: SAP Supply Chain Management  Industry Solutions  Special Software for Medium-Sized Enterprises  The Next Software Generation: SAP S/4HANA  The Technical Basis: SAP NetWeaver  Basic Principles of System Operation  Organizational Structures and Master Data  Organizational Structures  Master Data  Try It!  Logging On to the SAP System  SAP Logon  Logging On for the First Time  Logging On to the System  The SAP Graphical User Interface  Logging Off the SAP System  Try It!  Navigating in the SAP System  Overview of the Navigation Options  Navigating via the SAP Easy Access Menu  Navigating via Transaction Codes  Entering Data in the SAP System  Input Help  Working with Sessions  Try It!  Maintaining the System Layout and User Data  Creating Links on the Desktop  Maintaining Your Own User Data  Creating Favorites  Prepopulating Parameters for Fields  Holding, Setting, and Deleting Data  Adapting the User Interface  Try It!  Creating Evaluations and Reports  Using Standard Reports in the SAP System  Finding Standard Reports  Exporting Lists to Microsoft Excel  Using Variants  Other Reporting Options in SAP ERP  Try It!  Printing  Overview of the Print Functions  Using Spool Requests  Changing the Default Printer  Creating Screenshots  Try It!  Automating Tasks  Background Jobs  Batch Processing (Batch Input)  Try It!  Working with Messages and Business Workplace  Overview of the Business Workplace  Sending Short Messages  SAP Business Workflow  Folders  Office Organization  Try It!  Electronic Data Interchange  Overview of the Electronic Data Interchange Process  Electronic Data Interchange in Practice  Try It!  Using Help Functions  Field Helps and Search Windows  The Help Menu  Customizing the Help  Try It!  The Role and Authorization Concept  Authorizations  Roles  Try It!  Most Important Processes in the SAP System  Materials Management  Materials Management Tasks  Organizational Structures  Master Data  Purchase Order  Inventory Management  Invoice Verification  Automatic Material Requirements Planning  Standard Reporting  Sales and Distribution  Sales and Distribution Tasks  Organizational Structures  Master Data  Sales Order Processing  Availability Check  Complaint Processing (Returns)  Standard Reporting  SAP ERP Financials  Financial Accounting Tasks  Organizational Structures  Creating the Financial Statement and Profit and Loss Statement  Processing Vendor Invoices  Processing Customer Invoices  Evaluation  Controlling  Controlling Tasks  Organizational Structures  Overhead Cost Controlling  Product Cost Controlling  Profitability Analysis  Evaluations  Human Resources  Tasks in Human Resources  Organizational Management  Recruitment  Personnel Administration  Talent Management  Time Management  Payroll  Standard Reporting  Case Study  The Sample Business  The Enterprise Structure  Creating a Material Master Record  Creating Vendor Master Records  Creating Purchasing Info Records  Creating a Purchase Order  Receiving Goods  Verifying an Invoice  Displaying Open Items (Optional)  Posting Outgoing Payments  Creating a Customer Master  Adding Sales Data to the Material Master Record  Creating Conditions  Creating a Standard Order  Delivering and Issuing Goods  Creating an Invoice  Posting Incoming Payments  Appendices  Abbreviations  Glossary  Buttons, Key Combinations, and Function Keys  The Author