SAP Best Practices – Baseline Package (Part – III)
SAP Best Practices – Baseline Package (Part – III)
Till the last post we had fair idea about the Baseline package of Best Practices and a brief on documents available under the first Sub-section Overview under Intro section.
In this as the next posts we will try to find out what documents are available under every Sub-section.
So lets go one by one through each of them.
Sub-section: Concepts / Section Intro
This sub-section speaks about the flexibility and has following information
The building blocks that comprise SAP Best Practices are reusable tools and documents that allow you to assemble a solution to meet your needs.
The building block concept grants a high degree of flexibility. Alone, a complex building block can be a solution element. Combined, simple building blocks can form a process. A combination of building blocks can be used to modify an existing solution or process.
List of documentation available
The documentation available under this sub-section is explained below:
Authorisation Concept
This is a link which diverts you to SAP’s web page that speaks about SAP AUTHORIZATION CONCEPT. It firstly briefs following:
Purpose of Authorisation
How authorisation works in SAP
How Function list can help
Place where further information can be availed
The webpage has excel file available for download that contains the list of various Transactions and their Business Roles according to scenarios. We are attaching herewith the Function List file for your reference (Click on following link to download the file)
Baseline Package Function List
The page also contains link to SAP’s help webpage in case we need any further information not available on the current page.
POWLs and WebDynpros
This is a downloadable excel file containing information about POWL. (Click on the following link to download the file)
With this we have seen through the available documents under this sub-section. Now lets move on to the next one.
Sub-section: Business Blue Print / Section Business Info
This sub-section speaks about Business Blue Print and has following information:
The comprehensive SAP Best Practices documentation details the methodology and implementation of SAP Best Practices.
Discover the value and content of the solution by exploring the details provided here and in the next sections.
List of documentation available
The documentation available under this sub-section is explained below:
File 1: Solution Scope
This is a downloadable word file which contains:
list of supported business processes bifurcated under following groups:
External Financial Accounting
Asset Accounting
Planning
Period End Closing and Actual Postings
Sales and Distribution
Materials Management
Production Planning & Control
Logistics General / QM / PLM
Service
Master Data Generation Descriptions and Reporting
List of supported functions bifurcated under following groups:
Financials
Analytics
Human Capital Management
Procurement and Logistics Execution
Product Manufacturing
Sales and Service
Corporate Services
Click on the following link to download the file:
Note: This file becomes useful for understanding the business processes.
File 2: Function List
Please refer the previous Section in this post for this file.
File 3: Master Data for Controlling
This file contains following Master Data in Controlling module:
Cost Centers
Cost Center Groups
Activity Types
Activity Type Groups
Secondary Cost Elements
Cost Element Groups
Statistical Key Figures
Internal Orders
Profit Centers
Click on following link to download the file:
This file can be useful for us to determine various objects under Enterprise structure
File 4: Account Determination
This is one of the most important and informative file available in this section. This file contains information on the FI-MM Account Determination i.e. OBYC.
Click on the following link to download the file:
SAP FI-MM Account Determination
This file becomes very useful to understand various account transactions available under OBYC
File 5: Chart of Accounts
This is an excel file containing the complete List of General Ledger Accounts available under SAP Chart of Accounts “YAIN” with Master data information of each General Ledger Account like Type of Account, Field Status Group etc.
Click on the following link to download the file:
File 6: Master Data Overview
This is an excel file (available in zip format) which contains following sample master data
Product
Product Structure
Product Group
Product Hierarchy
Classification
Work Center
WBS
Service Master
Task List
Employee
Vendor
Customer
This file can be used as a template for creation of the Master Data
Click on following link to download the file:
File 7: Organisation Data Overview
This is an excel file containing information on the Organisation Structure. Click on the following link to download the file.
This file becomes most important of the whole list as it helps us to document the Organisation Structure which is backbone of any ERP system.
File 8: POWLs and WebDynpros
Please refer the previous Section in this post for this file.
This is the last file available under this Sub-section.
This explanation concludes our post. Hope this post has added value to your knowledge.
What Next?
In the next post we will see next sub-section to understand what documentation is available for us. Next Post Baseline Package - IV
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