A question that is often asked is, how do you get an SAP job? There is a very simple answer to that…get some SAP experience and the rest is fairly straight forward. Experience is a major part of the equation in the job world. And almost everybody who has ever applied for a job has thrown up their hands at some point and screamed, “How can I get experience if they won’t hire me?”
GAAP is out…IFRS is in. At least that’s the plan according to the SEC. We in the US are all about to get some schooling on how the rest of the world does accounting. The SEC has outlined the roadmap for making the jump in the US to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). While the mandatory transition may seem far into the future with the broad transition to IFRS proposed to begin in 2014, the effects on US companies will begin years earlier. Thank goodness the SEC is giving us some time to get ready for the test. This transition will not only be a major workout for US based corporate accounting departments, but IT departments will get in on the fun as well as they implement the methodology in their systems. (more…)
When SAP or ASUG put on keynotes, it’s like the start of some very cool, very hip rock concert, and then they start talking about business software. No iPod’s, no MacBook Air’s or iPhones, nothing that is going to overtly revolutionize the world, so the build up is a little misleading. But still, if your job revolves around the SAP sun, it’s about the coolest thing you’re going to get to see that’s job related. (more…)
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?
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…)
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.
