In a comment on another post, Ivan pointed out an excellent/authoritative blog post on SAP’s SDN by Ryan Leask (SAP) on the plan for BPC (Business Planning and Consolidations). I highly recommend reading his post as it is chock full of all the answers to the questions you’ve been asking about BPC.
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Here’s a situation that we FICO types occassionally run into, particularly those of us doing FICO development and technical support. You may come across the need to create effective dates for existing cost centers that are in the past, meaning “Valid from” dates that are prior to the existing “Valid from”. The bad news is that you cannot just go into transaction KS02 (Change Cost Center: Basic Screen) and press a “Change Validity Period” button like you can for profit centers in KE52. So, how do you do it?
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Looking for the holy grail in testing SAP? I am. We’ve got an upgrade from 4.6C to ERP 6 looming on the horizon, and a little testing magic would go a long ways. Wouldn’t it be cool to say, “Replicator, one sales order, 20 line items.” And…presto! “Replicator, pick and delivery on last Sales Order.” Sha-blam! All set. “Replicator, one purchase order with 300 line items, and tell me if it meets this set of criteria.” Dare I dream? Oh, yes, just like butter. Usually, testing feels more like a stint as the Black Knight from Monty Python’s Holy Grail than quality time spent with a Star Trek replicator. The good news is that the SAP world is moving towards that magical replicator experience in automated testing. Albeit slowly, but good progress all the same. Enter Worksoft Certify, HP’s Mercury, et al. This post is an introduction to Worksoft Certify. (more…)
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If there is one thing that SAP is not lacking in, it’s database tables. 40,000+ tables is what I’ve heard. They’ve got tables of tables. Knowing which table a particular piece of data is stored in is sometimes extremely useful, essential really if you’re going to do a SQVI or an SE16 query. If you’re lucky, finding the table for a particular data element can be easy, if you’re not lucky, well, you’re really not lucky in this case 
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If you’re starting to look at SAP Travel Management, a question you’ll likely face is whether to customize your Portal portion using Web Dynpro for Java or Web Dynpro for ABAP. With the introduction of the Java stack in Netweaver 7, you’d think that Java was the logical go-forward platform, but this is not the case with Travel. We are implementing Travel at my company, and have heard from several sources, including SAP, that future development in Travel will be strictly Web Dynpro for ABAP.
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Looking for the SAP Customer Master data? VD03 is the transaction code you need.
[Update] From Sebastien in comments:
VD03 Display Customer (Sales)
XD03 Display Customer (Centrally)
And also:
S_ALR_87012179 Customer List
S_ALR_87012180 List of Customer Addresses
Thanks, Sebastien!
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[Updated] This post is because I had to dig around a bit for this information and I wanted to make it easy to find. T-code SE38 is the ABAP Editor. Here, you can edit and execute SAP programs. If you are only looking to run programs, use transaction SA38 (thanks to reader Tuncay who pointed me the right direction below). You have several options including execute with Debugging (SE38 only) and execute with variants. [Updated] I’m still searching around for a t-code that only let’s you execute programs without the editor part. As mentioned above, Tuncay points out that SA38 is the transaction for Execute only.
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Had a question today from one of our Tax guys who was wanting to compare our SAP R/3 Cost Centers and Profit Centers with what they have in Vertex. To run a report of your cost centers that you can export or download to Excel, the T-code is: KS13.
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