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Session Descriptions
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Leverage Sales Information Systems (SIS) to gain insight into sales analytics
Best practices to generate meaningful fill-rate reports using SIS
Expert guidance for generating better inventory reports
Critical lessons for distributing sales reports with SAP BEx Broadcaster
Tap into advanced BEx techniques to generate higher-quality sales reports
Leverage Sales Information Systems (SIS) to gain insight into sales analytics
The SAP Sales Information System (SIS), a subset of the Logistics Information System (LIS) reporting tool, offers robust reporting capabilities and is more cost-effective for some reporting needs. Watch this session to:
- Learn how to generate sales-related reports even if SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) is not yet on your roadmap.
- Leverage SIS to activate your custom info structure to get monthly sales order details. Populate and update your info structure with sales details such as orders, shipments, and invoices.
- Learn how you can use SIS to help you save time and money by limiting development of custom ABAP programs, which are often used to determine monthly sales bookings values.
- Understand the role of SIS within LIS and user-defined info structures.
- Discover the differences between SIS in online transaction processing systems vs. SAP BW in online analytical processing systems.
- Learn step-by-step instructions to configure your own SIS to determine sales booking with order number details.
Best practices to generate meaningful fill-rate reports using SIS
Get a better handle on how well your company is meeting fill-rate metrics using SIS reports. Watch this session to:
- See how SIS can easily be used for quick, real-time reports of fill rates at both detailed and high levels
- Learn how to use available-to-promise data combined with a key figure based on fill rate in your reports in order to measure actual versus targeted fill rates.
- Get tips that functional teams can use to create their own key figures and characteristics, and find out when you’ll need to enlist the aid of an ABAP developer.
- Gain insight into how much SAP technical knowledge is required to build fill-rate reports in SIS.
- Acquire expert advice for how to use SIS in conjunction with SAP Query to validate report data.
- See how techniques used for fill-rate reports can be broadened to include reports that will tell you if you’re achieving other important metrics and KPIs.
Expert guidance for generating better inventory reports
Watch and learn how to master the inventory reporting options available in your SAP system in order to accurately keep track of stock. Watch this session to:
- Discover MM-IM reporting options that help you determine the quantities of purchased stock based on five scenarios: stock ordered but not received, stock on backorder, available stock in the warehouse, stock reserved for customer orders or production, and stock undergoing quality inspection.
- Identify which key activities and decisions in SD, QM, and WM depend on the reliability of IM reports.
- See why and how stock reports at the batch level are set up differently than reports at the item level.
- Identify the standard IM reports that provide a breakdown of stock levels according to plant and storage location.
- Get tips to ensure that IM stock valuation reports reconcile with stock values in your FI system.
- Find out it is essential to run a list of stock values, as well as consistency check reports, on a frequent basis to ensure the accuracy of your inventory data.
What's going on in my warehouse? How to leverage SAP reporting tools to track goods movement and resource utilization
Delve into the reporting options SAP makes available to help you identify important goods movement patterns within your warehouse. Watch this session to:
- Determine which reports are best sourced or developed from your R/3 or mySAP ERP system or whether you should consider SAP BW.
- Learn whether you can rely on standard, out-of-the-box reports for goods receipt, goods issue, and stock transfer reporting, and how much you’ll need to customize.
- Find out how to quickly and easily report on the amount of time that lapses between goods receipt and put-away.
- See how to generate reports that tell you which storage bins are being optimized or sub-optimized.
- Discover how capacity management can be used to maximize available warehouse space.
- Learn how to successfully use Warehouse Activity Monitor to gauge warehouse processes.
Critical lessons for distributing sales reports with SAP BEx Broadcaster
Move beyond the documentation with lessons gleaned from SAP Business Explorer (BEx) Broadcaster deployments. Watch this session to:
- See how your counter-parts leverage SAP BEx Broadcaster, available with SAP BW 3.5 and later, to better schedule and execute the delivery of SAP BW sales reports.
- Watch demos, infused with real-world advice, to set up and operate SAP BEx Broadcaster.
- Prepare for hardware and software prerequisites and learn how these requirements may change depending on how you publish and distribute your sales reports.
- See how tagging SAP BEx Broadcaster onto your SAP BW process chains further automates your sales report scheduling, and get tips to ensure you do it right.
- Learn where the security threats lie and how to apply the right controls to ensure that unauthorized parties do not gain access to broadcasted reports.
- See why you should consider a core governance council to maintain control over SAP BW sales report distribution as you roll out SAP BEx Broadcaster.
Special 2-part session: Exploit SAP BW and SEM to enhance SAP CRM planning, reporting, and forecasting
Learn how you can use SAP Business Warehouse (BW), Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM), and SAP CRM to enhance your sales analytics, reporting, planning, and forecasting capabilities. Sales planning and forecasting are achieved via the implementation of these products, allowing for integrated sales planning at granular and high levels and at every level in between. Watch this session to:
- Prepare for the challenges you’ll face bringing the SAP CRM and BW/SEM together (e.g., fixing duplicate master data entries and utilizing sales hierarchies for planning purposes).
- Learn how this combination of functionalities enables you to drill down to detailed levels of granularity within your organization.
- Get tips for striking a balance between the need for sales granularity and aggregate forecasts that are best suited to spot and analyze big-picture trends.
- See how SAP CRM actually leverages SEM/BW-BPS as its planning tool.
- Understand how SAP BW stores SAP CRM data and how BPS can leverage that data for planning and forecasting.
Tap into advanced BEx techniques to generate higher-quality sales reports
Watch this session to advance your understanding of SAP Business Explorer (BEx) Query Designer and Analyzer, the staples of any SAP BW reporting environment. In this session you will:
- Learn how to leverage undocumented BEx capabilities to generate higher-quality sales reports.
- Learn how to use exceptions to highlight report results that deviate from expectations or projections.
- See how to color-code exceptions so that you can identify them easily with a quick scan of your sales report.
- Acquire valuable tips to integrate exceptions with Reporting Agent or BEx Broadcaster so that you receive notification the moment an exception occurs.
- See how to use conditions to create ranked lists and statistical reports.
- Delve into effective but often underused capabilities for creating and calculating formulas.
- Gain insight into how to get around BEx row and column limitations, as well as how to avoid getting too many records in your query results.
- Get a handle on how and to what extent you can — and cannot — incorporate Excel formatting and functionality into your SAP BW sales reports.