SAP Summit`08 Day - 2

SAP SUMMIT` 08

Day 2:

The day started with a talk on "Winning in a Competitive Scenario"

By Anil Kumble. He spoke about the insight of building a winning team, motivation and to be successful.

He added: "You can succeed whatever your strengths are. All you need to do is to create a doubt and be consistent. Even today, after 18 years of test cricket and over 600 test wickets, I am asked at press conferences - when will you spin the ball? I don't mind such questions, as I believe in playing to my strengths."

He said: we need to compete globally. Therefore, we need to ensure that we keep winning over a period of time. Leadership in adversity is something everyone should pay attention to. There are various aspects. We need to look at global players vs. local players. A classic example is Shane Warne, and how he led the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL T20. Next comes listening and decision making, backing your team members, and equanimity in challenging times. For a leader, it is a constant challenge to have players improving on their game all the time.

The talk was very entertaining and enlighting. He related Cricket to corporate and focused on team building aspects.

The Second day event was categorized by different industry specific areas. I am into Engineering Constructions & Operations, so I went for Track - 6 Meant for Engg Constructions and operations.

1st Presentation was given by A.Subba Rao of GMR group. He shared his Experience of SAP implementation at GMR, the hiccups, and Key findings.

He advised all companies who are planning to implement SAP to:

1. Budget sufficient Time for Negotiations, be it with Hardware partner, or network partner. On this I asked about negotiating with SAP for licenses, as they have the monopoly in the market. He replied to this saying, budget sufficient Time lines and to avoid management pressure to implement SAP. Some present there suggested to wait till quarter end for negotiating with SAP, to get the best deals.

2. He also laid emphasis on having a strict Timelines for implementing SAP. Having initial CFO meet with all the financial heads of the companies to understand the need and requirement. He suggested forming a Steering committee of Business process owners of the company having regular meetings on the development of SAP implementation.

The next to deliver the speech was Mr. Satish Pendse of Hindustan Construction Company.

HCC is now offering implementation service to construction industry with there expertise in developing a well knitted SAP for their company. He informed all about the benefits HCC is getting from SAP implementation, with hands on information available to take decisions.

He also informed that by having a system and process in place, they have overcome the attrition problem which some times give rise to putting a business to halt. With the process in place it becomes very easier for new joinees to mould to the process.

He also advised to have No Parallel Run with any other software from the date of Go-Live. His idea was not to revolutionize but Evolutize. He stressed on passing the idea of having an ERP to each and every personal within the company, as they will also understand about the importance of putting correct data in the system coz if they fail... Garbage in = Garbage out.

The Next session I attended was about Connectivity at Sites.

This was an important topic as for most of the infrastructure company the sites are remote locations, and these locations needed to be mapped with SAP to have real time data available.

There are three options available in the current scenario:

1. Using Central instance: Linking your sites to central hub with internet, VSAT, or any other solutions.

2. Interactive forms: This solution is developed with co-ordination with ADOBE solutions, in this kind of solution; data are fed to the forms and stored locally and then can be taken in pen drive to nearest internet parlour and then upload the data via e-mail.

3. Using Mobile infrastructure: Using Blackberry, or any other popular mobile phones to do the talking with SAP, and be able to take decisions on the move.

Now the most Important Session of the DAY, as it was about MARG.

Quintegra Solutions Limited, Our implementation partner presented their story with MARG, and demonstrated their ability to develop and innovate solutions as per business needs.

They have developed a solution called BPFx for REFX, which gives the power of Re sales in REfx without investing in additional hardware and licensing. It also helps in reducing time lines of implementation.

It was a long day attending sessions, I opted to go out, and as soon as I reached my hotel it started Raining. I thought to utilize this time to pen down my experience in SAP summit 08.

SAP SUMMIT 08 - MUMBAI - DAY 1

SAP SUMMIT`08

Day 1:

The grand event was hosted at Hotel Grand Hyatt, Mumbai. There were around 3ue was divided into two parts; one was the Stall section adjacent to a ground near Hyatt, where various IT companies including SAP have put their stalls demonstrating their excellence in various fields and their offerings. I went around each of the stalls, some were quite informative specially the ones which were offering industry specific solutions.

The other part was in the Hotel; here most of the Track sessions were scheduled, including the Keynote sessions, and inauguration session.

Th500 Attendees this year

The ven

e lunch was exquisite, really the Hyatt style. The time was now for the inauguration session.

It started with a welcome address by Ranjan Das, President & CEO, SAP Indian Subcontinent. He shared the statistics about SAP in India, and touched upon the growth story of SAP in India stating India as the fastest growing business region for SAP.

Then came the turn of Dr. Anbumani Ramdoss, Hon'ble Min. for Health & Family Welfare, Govt of India, who inaugurated the event by lighting the sacred Light. He is the youngest minister of the cabinet. He stressed upon the Rural Health care program, he also advised IT professional to maintain work Life balance, avoiding junk foods in IT companies, and late working hours. He told that the most valuable asset with India is its young manpower, but by deteriorating lifestyles, it will soon become a liability if not taken care properly. He informed all present about the intervention of IT in Govt. Sector, he informed about introducing ID card for each children in INDIA, which will contain there health information, periodic health checkups schedules. He also shared the vision of having a common hotline help number for Health service in India which will be a revolution in INDIA.

Then there was a talk from Bill McDermott, President & CEO, SAP Americas, Asia Pacific & Japan and the followed by the implementation experience of Mr. V RS Natarajan, Chairman & Managing Director, BEML Limited.

The session was very informative. Felt great to attend the 1st day at SAP summit 08.

Then the crowd was entertained by a stage performance by Navin Prabhakar, a good way to end the evening, followed by dinner.

User Administration - R/3

User Administration T code for User maintainance - SU01. You can create a new user or copy the existing user master. The user master contain all data and setting that are required to log on to a client. Types of User:Dialog User, Communication User, System User, Service User, Reference User. User ids allow access to SAP applications. Each user must have a corresponding profile specifically assigned. In many situations, multiple composite profiles can be assigned to a user ID, depending on the roles an individual user is responsible. Authorizations are the key building blocks of SAP security. assigning authorization is the process of assigning values to fields present in authorization objects. In SAP, access to all system functionality is achieved through a complex array of authorizations. A Profile Generator T-code: PFCG is used to automatically generate and assign authorization profiles. The administrator can also create authorization profiles manually. Default User ids: User Ids Client Name SAP* 000 and 001 DDIC 000 and 001 EarlyWatch 066A User Admin must be fimilar with the tasks and responsibilities of admin for creation, managing and controlling access to the R/3 system and its data, and also various R/3 user types and its data.Must manage and create new user, groups and profiles using R/3 transaction.Be fimilar with monitoring active users. Transport client specific user objects between R/3 system or Clients.

SAP Vs Oracle- NetWeaver (SAP) Vs. Fusion (Oracle)

SAP Vs Oracle- NetWeaver (SAP) Vs. Fusion (Oracle) 1st of all there are various grounds on which we can compare an ERP package, But we can never say that any particular ERP (SAP Vs Oracle) is better than other. Oracle went on a shopping spree, gobbling up companies like J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Retek and others. Suddenly, there are two gorillas in the market, along with a whole bunch of customers who now find themselves under the Oracle umbrella. I believe SAP has done a better job of both articulating its roadmap for NetWeaver and delivering on it. To be fair, that is in part because they have been at it longer than Oracle. Fusion is barely a year old, whereas NetWeaver has been bandied about as a concept for almost three years. But I also believe that SAP's advantage in building out its own applications – as opposed Oracle's strategy of acquiring or partnering to build its applications portfolio – has allowed the market to see more clearly where SAP is going and what functionality will be available once the full force of NetWeaver's service architecture can be brought to bear on the market. Oracle's Fusion Middleware strategy is relatively well thought-out and well-defined, but the roadmap for Fusion Applications still has a lot of blank space in it – placeholders for as-yet unannounced acquisitions and partnerships. Oracle's workflow and business event system allows companies to configure business processes in a variety of ways, with the capability of sending e-mail notifications and alerts to practically anyone associated with the organization. SAP does not offer anything that is equally configurable or flexible. This means that, in addition to a strong services infrastructure, a vendor needs a large portfolio of services to assemble – the more the merrier. This is where SAP's next advantage comes into play. SAP's has experience in 28 verticals, and the software functionality to prove it. As NetWeaver unfolds, one of SAP's tasks will be to service-orient all that functionality and make it available as building blocks for the future. That's a non-trivial task, but one that, once done, provides SAP customers with an exceptionally large palette of vertical industry functionality on which to build their service-oriented future. Oracle, on the other hand, has always lagged in providing deep vertical functionality, a fact acknowledged by the vertical focus of their acquisition and partnering strategy. While there is some deep vertical functionality now in the Fusion playbook – Retek in retail was a major coup, and Siebel can provide some CRM-specific vertical functionality in the industries that it targeted – the scope of this functionality still lags behind that of SAP. And while Oracle is now vowing to fill in the blanks with more partner products, until we can evaluate exactly what those products can do and how many vertical industries they allow Oracle to compete in, SAP still has the vertical industry advantage. SAP requires on average four times more internal resources, and companies spend almost twice as much for SAP training Further, the SAP customisations and integration issues can increase consulting costs substantially. A company can install Oracle Applications and begin conducting its operations successfully in six months. If an organization is looking to sustain its competitive advantage and become a market leader in its industry, this means constant organizational change through streamlining business processes, reorganization and restructuring, and so forth. As economic history confirms, these activities are demanding in and of themselves. They become nearly impossible with an ERP system that is inflexible, difficult to implement and maintain, hard to use and unnecessarily costly. Oracle Applications, on the other hand, can be successfully deployed in a short time frame. It is flexible and highly configurable. It has a lower TCO than SAP. Working with Oracle Applications is easier than SAP, according to users who have seen both. Does Oracle really have a better offering than SAP? The answer is a resounding "Yes!"

Advantages and Disadvantages of SAP

Advantages and Disadvantages of SAP SAP Advantages: 1. Integration Integration can be the highest benefit of them all. The only real project aim for implementing ERP is reducing data redudancy and redudant data entry. If this is set as a goal, to automate inventory posting to G/L, then it might be a successful project. Those companies where integration is not so important or even dangerous, tend to have a hard time with ERP. ERP does not improve the individual efficiency of users, so if they expect it, it will be a big disappointment. ERP improves the cooperation of users. 2. Efficiency Generally, ERP software focuses on integration and tend to not care about the daily needs of people. I think individual efficiency can suffer by implementing ERP. the big question with ERP is whether the benefit of integration and cooperation can make up for the loss in personal efficiency or not. 3. Cost reduction It reduces cost only if the company took accounting and reporting seriously even before implementation and had put a lot of manual effort in it. If they didn't care about it, if they just did some simple accounting to fill mandatory statements and if internal reporting did not exists of has not been fincancially-oriented, then no cost is reduced. 4. Less personnel Same as above. Less reporting or accounting personnel, but more sales assistants etc. 5. Accuracy No. People are accurate, not software. What ERP does is makes the lives of inaccurate people or organization a complete hell and maybe forces them to be accurate (which means hiring more people or distributing work better), or it falls. Disadvantages: 1. Expensive This entails software, hardware, implementation, consultants, training, etc. Or you can hire a programmer or two as an employee and only buy business consulting from an outside source, do all customization and end-user training inside. That can be cost-effective. 2. Not very flexible It depends. SAP can be configured to almost anything. In Navision one can develop almost anything in days. Other software may not be flexible.

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Useful Transaction Codes

Useful Transaction Codes: AL11 SAP directories BAPI BAPI Explorer BUSP Regenerate screens during BDT development CMOD Project management FILE Logical file paths GRANT_CUSTOMIZE Customize Grant management screens via SAP's BDT(business data toolset) - Must have permission from SAP to use this method of modification OAOR Business document navigator (edit ENJOYSAP_LOGO etc for ALV Tree) OLE Examples for OLE Processing PFTC Workflow SA38 Execute program SCC1 Client Copy, copy transport SCDO Change Document / Change History SCOT SAPconnect Administration. SE01 Transport Organizer (extended view) SE03 Transport Organizer Tools (change package/dev class etc..) SE09 Workbench organiser SE11 ABAP Dictionary SE14 Database utility: Adjust after change to definition, delete…. SE16 Data browser, view/add table data SE18 Business Add-ins(BADI’s): Definition transaction SE19 Business Add-ins(BADI’s): Implementation transaction SE24 Class builder SE38 Program Editor SE39 Split screen editor SE41 Menu Painter SE51 Screen Painter SE61 Document maintenance SE71 Form painter (SAPscript) SE80 Object Navigator ( SAP Development workbench, most development functionality is available from this transaction ) SE81 Application Hierarchy (leads to SE84 for desired area) SE84 Repository info system SE91 Message Maintenance SE93 Maintain Transaction code SHD0 Create Transaction Variant. Enter name of transaction plus name of new/existing variant. SHDB Batch input recorder SLIN ABAP program extended syntax check (full check of programs syntax) SM04 User overview SM12 Lock entries SM13 Update Requests SM21 Online system log analysis SM30 Maintain table views SM31 Table maintenance SM35 Batch input i.e. Recording SM36 Create background job SM37 Background job monitor, Select background jobs SM49 External Commands SM50 Process overview (within current server) SM51 Server overview SM59 Display and Maintain RFC destination SM64 Display/maintain Events SM66 Process(session) overview across all servers SM69 External commands(Maintain) SMW0 SAP WEB Repository(binary data) - add/ mod images(used to put in screen containers) SMX View background jobs SNOTE SAP note assistant (if installed) SNRO Maintain number ranges (use FM 'NUMBER_GET_NEXT' to retrieve next number in range.) SO10 Standard text editor SP01 Spool list SP02 Own spool list SPAD Spool Administrator SPAM Support package manager SPAU Modification adjustment SPRO IMG SQ01 Sap Query ST02 Database Tune Summary ST04 DB Performance Monitor STMS Transport Manager ST22 ABAP Dump Analysis SU01 User Maintenance SU53 Retrieve authorisation data for object, execute after error message is displayed(/nsu53) SUIM User info system (New user, Roles, Authorisations, User tcodes etc..) SXDA Data transfer workbench SALE IDoc and ALE development VOK2 Output determination by functional area / output type (Output programs). WEDI IDoc and EDI Basis If you have any other queries mail me : riteshchoudhury@gmail.com Now get paid for each sms u recieve in ur phone...seems intresting.. yaa its true register here http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=9015

Installing SAP in Windows 2003 server

Installation guidelines for SAP 4.6c 1. Install OS (server) 2. Create a microsoft loop back adapter 3. config by giving an ip addres eg. 192.168.1.2 4. Edit the Host file in windowws type: 192.168.1.2 om SAPTRANSHOST where om is the computer name give one space after ip address and two tabs after computer name 5. save the file 6. check the connection by typing ping saptranshost in command prompt ** paging allocation ** select atleast 1500-2000 mb for pagging file 7. install Oracle by running sapsever.cmd 8. stop all oracle process from going to serices.msc 9. install oracle patches. 10. restart the system 11. install the SAP istance by running setup.bat 12. follow on screen instruction 13. log off 14.install central instance 15. install database instance 16. on 95% it will ask for a password there we have to start the sap server. 17. complete the installation 18. install SAp GUI if you have any other queries mail me : riteshchoudhury@gmail.com now get paid for each sms u recieve in ur phone... seems intresting.. yaa its true register here http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=9015

COURSE CONTENT FOR SAP-BASIS

COURSE CONTENT FOR SAP-BASIS Introduction to SAP R/3 Basis =>What is Basis? =>Introduction to SAP R/3 Client / Server Technology and SAP R/3 Architecture =>Roles and Responsibilities of Basis Consultants =>Database Service. Application Services, Presentation Services =>Introduction to OS Concepts =>Introduction to SAP R/3 Hardware Concepts : The CPU =>Introduction to SAP R/3 Hardware Concepts : Storage =>Available SAP R/3 Platforms – Windows NT =>SAP R/3 Networking issues Architecture of SAP R/3 Application Server =>SAP R/3 Application Server Architecture =>Dialog Server =>Update Server =>SAP R/3 Work Process – Overview =>Managing SAP R/3 Work Processes SAP R/3 Administration Tasks – Client =>Introduction to Client =>Creating Client =>Client Copy ( Local, Remote, Export and Import ) =>Dropping a Client SAP R/3 Administration Tasks – User Managements =>Creating User =>Authorizations =>Profiles and Activity Groups =>Locking and Unlocking a User =>Introduction to profile Generator =>Profile Management ( Single and Composite ) =>Limiting Logon Attempts =>Setting Password Controls =>Maintaining User defaults & Options SAP R/3 Administrator Tasks – Background Jobs =>Jobs Definition =>Start Date =>Job Steps =>Job Monitoring =>Deleting a Job PROFILE AND OPERATION MODES Default profile Startup profile Instance profile DATA ARCHIVING Data Archiving SPOOLING Front end computer spooling Access method SAP R/3 Administration Tasks – CCMS =>OS Monitoring =>DB Monitoring =>Alerts SAP R/3 Administration Tasks – Memory Management and Miscellaneous =>Introduction to SAP R/3 Virtual Memory =>SAP R/3 Buffers =>SAP R/3 Memory Management System =>Remote Function Call ( RFC ) =>Dump Analysis =>Sys Log Types of R/3 Systems and System Landscape =>Development (DEV). Testing (QTST). Production ( PROD ) =>Single System Landscape =>Two System Landscape =>There System Landscape SAP R/3 Administration Tasks – Change and Transport System =>Customizing =>ABAP/4 Workbench =>Change Request =>Recording Changes =>Transportation Transport Management System ( TMS ) =>TMS Domain =>TMS Domain Controller =>Transport Groups =>Transport Layer =>Transport Route =>Transport Directory =>Virtual Systems =>SAP R/3 Repository SAP R/3 Administration Tasks – Patch Administration =>Overview of Support Packages =>Introduction to Applying SAP Patches =>Introduction to Applying Kernel Patches SAP R/3 Administration Tasks – SAP-DBA =>Oracle Server Architecture Overview =>Oracle Server Startup/Shutdown =>Table space Administration =>SAP R/3 Reorganization of an Oracle Database =>SAP R/3 Restore and Recovery of an Oracle Database =>Startup and Shutdown of database SAP R/3 Administration Tasks – Database Analysis =>Size =>Free Space =>Growth History =>Statistics SAP R/3 Installation =>Installing SAP R/3 on Windows NT / 2000 – Preparation =>Installing SAP R/3 on Windows NT / 2000 – Installation =>Installing SAP R/3 on Windows NT / 2000 – Post Installation =>Language Transport =>Installing Database Server and Application Server =>Installing Presentation Server ( SAP GUI ) & Accessing SAP R/3 from PC =>Starting and Stopping R/3 System SAP R/3 Administration Tasks – Installing an application server =>Installing an application server =>Changing Parameters Review of T – Codes SAP R/3 Administrative Task Wide If you have any other queries mail me : riteshchoudhury@gmail.com Now get paid for each sms u recieve in ur phone...seems intresting.. yaa its true register here http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=9015

What is SAP? Introduction To SAP

What is SAP? SAP (Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing) • SAP is both the name of the Company as well as their ERP Product. SAP, started in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall. The original name for SAP was German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte, German for "Systems Applications and Products." The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications. Gradually, the applications have been assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft, are using SAP products to run their own businesses. SAP is an ERP Package: ERP (enterprise resource planning) is an industry term for the broad set of activities supported by multi-module application software that helps a manufacturer or other business manage the important parts of its business, including product planning, parts purchasing, maintaining inventories, interacting with suppliers, providing customer service, and tracking orders. ERP can also include application modules for the finance and human resources aspects of a business. Typically, an ERP system uses or is integrated with a relational database system. The deployment of an ERP system can involve considerable business process analysis, employee retraining, and new work procedures. Enterprise Architecture - Benefits • Eliminates the duplication, discontinuity and redundancy in data • Increases the return on investment made on IT implementations • Delivers quality information designed for the Enterprise as a whole • Faster and cheaper • Delivers quality information to produce a quality enterprise • Satisfying Partners/Customers • Reducing required manpower There are now 44,500 installations of SAP, in 120 countries, with more then 10 million users! SAP now are moving away from describing their system as a set of modules, and now are using the term ‘solutions’, which is much better. If you visit SAP’s website (as we urge you to do) you will find that they have structured their Solutions tab as follows: Financials Human Resources Customer Relationship Management Supplier Relationship Management Product Lifecycle Management Supply Chain Management Business Intelligence If you’re still looking for that list of modules, here they are: FI Financial Accounting – essentially your regulatory ‘books of record’, includingGeneral ledger Book close Tax Accounts receivable Accounts payable Consolidation Special ledgers CO Controlling – basically your internal cost/management accounting, includingCost elements Cost centres Profit centres Internal orders Activity based costing Product costing AM Asset Management – track, value and depreciate your assets, includingPurchase Sale Depreciation Tracking PS Project Systems – manage your projects, large and small, includingMake to order Plant shut downs (as a project) Third party billing (on the back of a project) HR Human Resources – ah yes, people, includingEmployment history Payroll Training Career management Succession planning PM Plant Maintenance – maintain your equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an aircraft etc), includingLabour Material Down time and outages MM Materials Management – underpins the supply chain, includingRequisitions Purchase orders Goods receipts Accounts payable Inventory management BOM’s Master raw materials, finished goods etc QM Quality Management – improve the quality of your goods, includingPlanning Execution Inspections Certificates PP Production Planning – manages your production process, includingCapacity planning Master production scheduling Material requirements planning Shop floor SD Sales and Distribution – from order to delivery, including RFQ Sales orders Pricing Picking (and other warehouse processes) Packing Shipping CA Cross Application – these lie on top of the individual modules, and include WF – workflow BW – business information warehouse Office – for email Workplace Industry solutions New Dimension products such as CRM, PLM, SRM, APO etc If you have any other queries mail me : riteshchoudhury@gmail.com Now get paid for each sms u recieve in ur phone...seems intresting.. yaa its true register here http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=9015