If you’re trying to get profit center hierarchies (as seen in T-code: KCH3 ) into BI-BW, there is help.

There are several discussions over at the SAP Developer Network talking about how to add Profit Center hierarchies to SAP BI-BW. This is something that we are going through with our system right now. So, we’re trying to find info to get us going.

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Maybe I’m the last person on the planet to read/listen to David Allen’s Getting Things Done, but it’s about time!

So…here’s the cheat sheet (my distillation of the Wikipedia article) : Read the rest of this entry »

Not all SAP journal entries are created equal. F-02 type entries (including F-04, F-30, FBD1, FB50, FB60, FB70, etc, etc) make postings to the General Ledger and all of the other special ledgers that need updating, including Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting, and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).

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I stumbled across an awesome utility add-in for excel that will save you tons of time doing mundane little formulas and formattings to your data. The folks over at ASAP Utilities have created this wonderful tool and it’s completely free for the taking.

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I have searched the net for a Wordpress plug-in that would allow me to add a todo list to a Wordpress blog, but to no avail. My options were to write my own or keep searching. What I really wanted was a to-do list like the available for Google personalized homepages. This ultimately led me to see if that wonderful little Ajax list machine could be plugged into a website, and low and behold…Google gadgets! Read the rest of this entry »

In our wholesale distribution company, we have limited use for Production Orders, whereas a manufacturer might use them all the time. We do use Production Orders for assembling kits from various inventory items. This is a brief description of the process from a FICO perspective and how you might analyze the transaction history.

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Applies to: R3 4.6c (which means it probably applies to all of 4.6)

If you’ve ever needed to build something outside of SAP that uses the SAP’s account set, profit center set, or functional area set hierarchies, it can be a big task. Ideally, you could use some sort of BAPI or remote hook into SAP and use its functions…unfortunately for me, that’s beyond my security priviledges. So, I was forced to rebuild what SAP does with its hierarchy. Here’s a jump start on the tables that SAP uses so you can use its structure.

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SAP makes it easy to create and post a Journal Entry that you can base off of a previously posted document. If you don’t need to set up a full blown Recurring Entry(or you don’t have access to FBD1 - Recurring document), you can easily copy a previously posted document in FB50. SAP gives you several options for what info you’re going to use from the previous document including: Read the rest of this entry »