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Exploit proven, undocumented techniques to achieve better fixed asset reporting
Powerful financial slice-and-dice capabilities with SAP R/3 Drill-Down Reporting
Build effective accounts payable and accounts receivable reports using standard R/3 reporting tools
Five techniques to speed performance of profitability analyses and other CO-PA reports
Create simple and advanced statistic and ranked lists using SAP Query
Perform basic and advanced calculations with SAP Query — little to no programming required!
A comprehensive guide to SAP options for building, customizing, generating, formatting, and distributing financial reports
SAP offers a variety of options for building, customizing, generating, formatting, and distributing financial reports in both SAP R/3 and BW (BI). This session offers a comprehensive guide to these options and the features, requirements, and trade-offs of each. Watch this session to:
- Weigh the strengths and weaknesses of core R/3 reporting options including Report Painter, SAP® Query, and ad hoc reporting capabilities.
- Understand the array of SAP pre-built financial reports available in R/3 and your options for customizing them.
- Explore the benefits and reasons to utilize SAP NetWeaver® BI (formerly BW) for financial reporting.
- Drill into the key capabilities of the BEx reporting tool to generate core financial reports.
- Explore the pros and cons of utilizing the Information Broadcaster to more efficiently distribute your reports.
- Understand ways you can more effectively Web-enable reports and offer your analysts and managers more self-service reporting options.
Exploit proven, undocumented techniques to achieve better fixed asset reporting
Learn how to do fixed asset reporting with approaches successfully used by other companies but not generally well explained or documented. Watch this session to:
- Get expert guidance on how to modify standard reports to include additional asset fields that are not readily available.
- Learn about advanced ALV features such as ABC Analysis and how they can be best utilized in asset reporting.
- Uncover several powerful but little-known reports not officially found on the reporting tree.
- Step through an example of how to use cost center reports to identify blocked cost centers that may prevent you from posting month-end asset depreciations, which can result in costly accounting errors and unnecessary rework.
- Leverage the asset class change report to see if any configuration changes made to the system could be causing errors in your fixed asset reports.
- Find out how to easily configure asset history reports so that asset acquisitions are correctly displayed according to GAAP standards.
- Review functions of SAP Query and better understand how to use it as part of a successful ad hoc reporting strategy for fixed assets.
- See examples of ways that you perform better master data reporting using search helps.
- Understand the advantages and capabilities of BW and how it can be used for successful fixed asset reporting.
Powerful financial slice-and-dice capabilities with SAP R/3 Drill-Down Reporting
Delve more deeply into your R/3 financial reports with SAP R/3 Drill-Down reporting. Watch this session to:
- See how this little-known and often underutilized tool allows you to slice and dice a vast array of General Ledger, Treasury, A/R, A/P, and other financial information from just a single report.
- Find out how Drill-Down reporting reduces the drain on your IT resources by allowing developers to build a single report that satisfies the requirements of several reporting requests.
- Gain insight into how you can use Drill-Down reporting to overcome common financial reporting pain points, such as reporting off multiple characteristics in a single report.
- Identify the areas within FI/CO where you can access Drill-Down reporting.
- Learn how to build a Drill-Down report from either A/P or A/R.
Build effective accounts payable and accounts receivable reports using standard R/3 reporting tools
Explore techniques that will help you overcome common pain points associated with building A/P and A/R subledger reports in your R/3 system. Watch this session to:
- Acquire expert tips for how to include master data characteristics in A/P and A/R reports, as well as how to freely define aging buckets.
- Identify the reporting tools that will best help you with these reports, including SAP Query, Drill-Down Reporting, and Evaluations, and learn which tool to use for the job at hand.
- View detailed demos of techniques for building A/P and A/R reports using drill-down reporting.
- Step through examples of how to simplify the creation of commonly requested reports, such as Actual A/R Aging, from invoice data.
- Learn how to customize evaluations to meet your A/R and A/P reporting needs.
Five techniques to speed performance of profitability analyses and other CO-PA reports
CO-PA's strength is that it acts as an information hub within R/3, pulling data from various modules such as FI and SD to generate profitability analyses and top-level management reports. The downside, however, is that this capability causes CO-PA's database to increase rapidly in size, often degrading reporting performance to the extent that reports can time out. Watch this session for powerful techniques to overcome CO-PA performance challenges:
- Get expert advice for leveraging summarization levels that allow you to run reports based only on the specific characteristics you need.
- Learn how to determine the optimum summarization levels for your reporting needs, and find out why it’s important not to define too many.
- Explore the pros and cons of using the summarization data and frozen data techniques to correct CO-PA performance.
- Discover how to generate split reports that run based on a specific characteristic.
- Explore the powerful drill-down capabilities of split reports.
- Find out how the Read Upon Navigation feature dramatically reduces the number of records the system must search when running a report.
- Identify the types of reports that are best suited for each tool.
Create simple and advanced statistic and ranked lists using SAP Query
In contrast to basic lists (traditional reports), the data in statistic and ranked lists is output in a compressed, summarized format. Watch this session to:
- Receive complete step-by-step instructions and examples for how to create statistic and ranked lists using SAP Query.
- See how statistic lists are similar to Microsoft Excel pivot tables and how they allow you to produce summary analyses of data, including totals and averages.
- Discover how you can leverage summarized data reports to make more meaningful business decisions.
- Find out which syntax to use within calculated fields and how you can use calculated fields in conjunction with statistics to provide a summarized statistic report.
- Learn how to create ascending and descending ranked lists.
Special 2-part session: Everything you need to know to create your own reports with SAP Query — no programming required!
This session delivers comprehensive guidance to leverage SAP Query and related tools, including InfoSet Query and QuickViewer, to create your own reports. Part 1 provides best practices to configure R/3 to successfully deploy SAP Query. Part 2 provides detailed, train-the-trainer style instruction for how to use SAP Query to create meaningful, comprehensive reports in all application areas of R/3. Watch this session to:
- Learn how to configure InfoSets and properly use logical databases.
- Explore important do’s and don’ts for transport maintenance and client deployment of these tools.
- Tap into SAP Query enhancements that help you minimize reporting performance problems.
- Obtain best practices for how to monitor random users to ensure that they are using the tool properly and cataloging reports correctly to prevent the creation of duplicate queries.
- Learn the right way to use basic and advanced screens.
- Gain insight into how to leverage seven advanced screens to add subtotals, alter column widths, add colors, create custom headers and footers, and incorporate graphics into your reports.
- Find out how far you can take SAP Query in creating your own reports and when you need the professional assistance of an ABAP™ developer.
Perform basic and advanced calculations with SAP Query — little to no programming required!
Obtain detailed instruction on how to perform basic and advanced calculations in SAP Query reports for any application area in SAP — no coding required. Watch this session to:
- Discover how to create calculated fields in SAP Query to perform basic calculations.
- Gain expert advice to perform more complex “if…then” statements, such as: “If the cost center is = to X, multiply the annual salary by 3% to project future increase costs.”
- Unleash the power of how using local fields and entries on selection screens allows you to perform calculations in SAP Query that most people think are only available using ABAP programming.
- Learn how to add symbols and color icons to your report to highlight certain entries (e.g., red flag any vendor overdue for payment).
- Understand all your options when using SAP Query’s report output, and discover the various options for your SAP Query output via the toolbar.
Tips and tricks to overcome the top 15 personnel, payroll, benefits, and general HR reporting challenges
This session puts important personnel, payroll, and benefits reporting information at your fingertips. Watch this session to:
- Discover how to successfully meet your HR reporting requirements by optimizing your use of SAP Query.
- Get expert advice for how to include Personnel Administration (PA) and Personnel Development (PD) data in the same report.
- Obtain an easy-to-use solution for single-line reporting based on Infotypes, such as Infotype 41, and eliminate duplicate line reporting.
- Learn how to use SAP Query to monitor compliance with the Department of Labor’s FairPay initiative.
- Tap into best practices to create custom organizational charts.
- See how to add tables or fields to existing InfoSets.
- Find out how to perform calculations, including “what if” statements, in your HR reports.
- Learn how to properly configure your HR events to optimize HR reporting.
Tap into Sales Information System (SIS) for more effective sales reports and deeper knowledge of your customers
This session provides expert advice for leveraging SAP Sales Information System (SIS) for robust and cost effective sales reporting. Watch this session to:
- Explore ways in which SIS can help you generate more meaningful reports and analyses if you have not yet made the leap to SAP BW, as well as how to use SIS as a complement to SAP BW.
- Step through an example of an ABAP-free way of using SIS to determine monthly sales bookings.
- See how to populate and activate custom information structures to fill your reports with more detailed information, such as individual customers’ sales orders, shipments, and invoices.
- Get step-by-step instruction on how to configure SIS to run sales reports that include specific order details.
- Find out how user-defined info structures in SIS affect your reporting strategy.