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About the book
The Contents of the book
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The contents of the book
Why should you buy this book
Who is the author?
Who should read this book and why?
Why I believe I have enough experience to write the book
An overview of SAP R/3
What is SAP R3?
What is so special about SAP?
Is SAP the ideal system for your business?
Has SAP R/3 changed the way that systems are implemented?
But we want a “Tailor made” system not one that is “Off the
peg”
Is SAP the best system available?
Why the “Horror stories”?
Is SAP suitable for the small to medium size business?
How to get it right
Change the business to match the system?
To modify or not to modify, that is the question
Should you re-engineer the business at the same time as you
implement SAP
Use the best SAP consultants you can afford
A simple ABAP?
Filling in the gaps in SAP functionality
The effects of non-standard implementations after go-live
Writing in-house reports in SAP R/3
How to avoid modifications or keep them to a minimum
A new SAP R/3 Implementation? Some points to consider
All modules in one implementation (Big bang) or Phased
(firecracker)?
When considering which approach to adopt, consider the
following;
Some of the advantages and disadvantages for both options;
How to get a good ROI (Return Of Investment / Information)
“Roll outs”
Getting the right project teams together?
What is an SAP champion and why would you need one?
How many teams do we need?
The structure within the Project Team?
The structure of the team
The business representatives on the team
The SAP resources on the teams.
Should we use a consulting company or contractors?
How many SAP resources do I need in each team?
Offshore resources, is it a cost saving?
Documentation, what is required?
Existing implementations
How can you tell if the SAP Implementation is a good one or
not?
What if the implementation was seen as a disaster, what are
the options?
How to get more from an existing SAP R/3 implementation
The fine-tuning project.
The Competency Centre
Is a Competency Centre (C.C.) right for you?
Is SAP right for YOU?
The CEO or Chairman of the Board.
The Finance Director.
The IS Director.
Senior Business managers
Project / implementation managers
Consultants
SAP training
The approach to training the end-users
Using training provided by SAP
Recruitment
Agencies
Recruiting SAP staff / contractors
A career in SAP, is it a good move?
The SAP certification, is it important?
How easy is the exam?
How to approach the certification exam
Common issues and areas of confusion
Mapping your organisation structure onto SAP
What is the organisation structure?
How to get it right.
Designing your organisation structure
The “Client”.
The “Company Code”
Plants and Storage locations
Purchasing Organisation
Purchasing Group
Sales Areas
Cost centres
Material Master management and control
Defining the Catalogue approach
Defining the Catalogue structure
Defining the Processes involved in a
Global Material Master file
Defining the data load approach
Data cleansing of the “legacy” data
Data Load and data verification
Ongoing maintenance (Add, delete,
change, extend)
Invoice Verification
Typical problems with the Invoice
Verification functional design
Invoice Verification and Goods
Receipt based Invoice Verification
MRP – Material Requirements Planning
MRP in more detail
Why do we need MRP?
Business Planning
Sales and Operations Planning (SOP)
Master Production Scheduling (MPS)
Detailed Material / Capacity Planning
Plant and Supplier Scheduling
Sales and Operations Planning (SOP)
The MRP process steps
Some of the terminology that is used
in the MRP functionality
“Inter-company” Transfers.
Moving Average Price versus Standard Price
Automatic Account Assignment
Split Valuation
A brief overview of each of the main modules in R/3
What is FI?
What is CO?
What is SD?
What is MM?
What is PM?
What is PP?
What is LIS?
Contracts or Scheduling agreements
External Services Management
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