SAP Best Practices – Baseline Package (Part – VII)
SAP Best Practices – Baseline Package (Part – VII)
In the previous post we have seen the documentation available till Forms Sub-section. In this post we will continue our understanding of the Baseline Best Practices Further.
Sub-section: Reports / Section Business Info
This sub-section speaks about the Reports available and has following information on the webpage:
Monitor and Control your Company Processes
SAP Reports
SAP Best Practices packages provide report information in different areas for you to monitor and control your company processes. The package includes the top reports in business process documents. In addition, all Business Process Documentation provides information about reports that are relevant to each specific process.
Further reports can be found in other SAP Best Practices packages.
The Reports part under this sub-sections is basically divided into Accounting and Logistics Reports. We will try to understand what each of them has for us:
Accounting
SAP ERP Reports for Accounting
When we click on the above link, the page navigates us to a new webpage that contains following information:
The reporting tools and existing reports can be used to satisfy reporting requirements in most cases. In the area of accounting, various reports can be used to get information about all fields of financial accounting. Faster reporting with SAP HANA can help you quickly generate reports in the business financials area.
Then we have a link “Business Process Documentation” upon clicking on this link, system downloads a word file that contains list of Key Reports available. The file contains reports for the following areas under Financials / Controlling:
General Ledger
Fixed Assets
Cost Element Accounting
Cost Center Accounting
Product Costing
Internal Orders
Profitability Analysis
Information System
Lets dive further and try to see which reports are available under above areas:
General Ledger
Recurring Entry Documents
G/L Account Statements
Financial Statement
Financial Statement: Actual/Actual Comparison
Compact Document Journal (List)
Line Item Journal (List)
Chart of Accounts (List)
GL Account Balances: List
Vendor Balances: Total List
Customer Balances: Total List
Document Journal List
Fixed Assets
Inventory List by Cost Center
Inventory List by Asset Class
Asset Balances
Asset Transactions
Asset Acquisitions
Asset Retirements
Asset History Sheet
Total Depreciation
Depreciation on Capitalized Assets (Depreciation Simulation)
Changes to Asset Master Records
Asset History (asset chart)
Cost Element Accounting
Controlling Documents: Actual Costs
Internal Orders: Master Data Report
Cost Center Accounting
Cost Centers: New Actual Line items
Cost Center: New Plan Line Items
Cost Centers: Actual/Plan/Variance
Range: Cost Centers
Range: Cost Elements
Cost Centers: Planning Overview
Range: Actual/Budget Commitments
Cost Centers: Activity Prices
Internal Orders
Orders: New Actual Line Items
Orders: New Plan Line Items
Orders: Commitment Line Items
List: Orders
Orders: Actual/Plan/Variance
Order: Planning Overview
Internal Orders: Master Data Report
List: Budget/Actual/Commitments
Product Costing
Multilevel BOM: Value/Amount/Status
Cost Component
Itemization
Cost Elements
Analyzing/Comparing Material Cost Estimates
Analyzing Product Cost Collector
Analyzing Product Order
Profitability Analysis
Executing Report
Profitability Analysis: Display Actual Line Items
Information System
Costs/Revenues/Expenditures/Receipts
Actual Costs/Revenues
Logistics
SAP ERP Reports for Logistics
When we click on the above link, the page navigates us to a new webpage that contains following information:
This building block contains the settings and documentation that enable you to use various reports to successfully monitor and control your company processes in the area of logistics and production.
Then we have a link “Business Process Documentation” upon clicking on this link, system downloads a word file that contains list of Key Reports available. The file contains reports for the following areas:
General Reports
Sales and Distribution
Material Management and Procurement
Service
Production
Lets dive further and try to see which reports are available under above areas:
General Reports
MRP List
List Display of Purchase Requisitions
Stock Overview
Outbound Delivery Monitor
Sales and Distribution
List of Sales Orders
Sales Order Selection
Analyzing Sales Orders
Actual Cost Line Items for Sales Documents
Listing Billing Documents
Releasing Billing Documents for Accounting
Incomplete SD Documents
SD Documents blocked for Delivery
SD Incomplete Documents
Purchase Requisition per Account Assignment
Purchase Orders by Account Assignment
Quotation List
Expiring Quotations
Expired Quotations
Completed Quotations
Credit Overview
Customers with Missing Credit Data
Credit Memos
License: Assigned documents
Check of Customer Master Regarding Legal Control
Backorders
Sales Support Monitor
Returns
Materials Management and Procurement
List of Notifications
Analysis of Purchase Order Values
Purchase Order by Material
Purchase Order by Vendor
Purchase Documents by Document Number
Purchasing Group Analysis
Releasing Purchasing Documents
Assigning and Processing Purchase Requisitions
Stock Requirement List
SC Stock Monitoring for Vendor
Vendor Analysis
Mass Activation of Planned Changes for Vendor
Material Document List
Displaying Warehouse Stocks of Material
Accounting Documents for Material
Material Documents with Reason for Movement
Batch Analysis
Availability Overview
Plant Analysis
Material Analysis
Consignment and Pipeline Settlement
Collective Conversion
Service
Service Notifications
Service and Maintenance Orders
Equipment list
Cost Analysis
Scheduling Overview
Serial Number List
Production
Production Order Information System
Missing Parts Info System
Capacity Planning
Long-Term Capacity Planning
Long-Term Planning: MRP List
Changing Plan
Evaluation of Product Group Planning
Selection: Plan/Actual/Variance
Costs/Revenues/Expenditures/Receipts
Actual/Plan/Variance Absolute/Variance %
Order Progress Report
Displaying Production Order Confirmation
Displaying Sales Orders with Delay Times
Reviewing Order Confirmations
Range of Coverage
All these reports can be very useful during our normal working as they help us get ample information.
Consultants should be aware of these reports and should try to draw information as much as possible from standard reports and try to avoid “Custom Developments” unless necessitated by the business requirement.
What Next?
This concludes information available on the Sub-Section “Reports”. You should make utmost use of the information available as a part of SAP’s Standard documentation.
In the next post we will look into the next sub-section of SAP Best Practices.
Till then have a great day ahead……..
References
SAP Best Practices
Downloads
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