Configure "best practise baseline" manually

Dear experts!
I'm studying SAP ERP as a student. I am interesting in SD. I have read the certification material TSCM and SCM.
Now I am waiting for your advice whether I need to configure "best practise baseline" manually.
We see, it will take a lot of time to configure "best practise baseline" manually.
However, I was thinking that it would be helpfull to my general view on ERP, as well as, I can use it to study "best practise industry" when I complete it.
How do you think?
Waiting for your advice!
Thank you!
Best regard!
Tang Dark

Hi,
Best Practises is a specific SAP solution and to get it you have to specifically buy it - it doesn't come standard with every ERP solution.
What is Best Practises? Best Practises is basically a set of pre configured stuff (BC sets) which you upload into SAP, hence reducing your configuration.
Baseline is basically the general configuration (per module) that a company requires to carry on with config. Things like org structure, etc.
On top of the baseline you can then start loading other more specific BC sets per module.
Best Practises is a methodology to address smaller companies because it reduces the blueprint and configuration phases. Projects can be finalised within 6 months compared to std ERP implementations that may take 1 to 2 years.
If you want to be a proper SD consultant do not study Best Practises only. Do your SAP academy. Best Practises you can learn after you know SAP.
As to Industries specific, these are add-ons to address specific industry requirements. For example, bills of services, is something used in project environments such as engineering & construction. So the funcitonality is not necessary, for example, the retail industry which sells only finished products.
Again, firs learn your SAP and then you can focus on learning others. If you learn SAP you can work on any Best Practices package or any Industry, If you study Best PRactises you can only work with BP, and the same goes for industry solutions.

Similar Messages

Implementation/Configuration/Best Practises for the Solman System.

Hello Guys,
In our landscape, we tried to configure the Solman system for Service Desk Functionality.
But the system does not work as expected, I am sure there has been a lot of misconfiguration and setups.
e.g.
1. When we directly try to create a message to SAP from the Support Message it goes to the webpage but does not detect the system in SMSY ( shows the error that system is not maintained in SMSY though they are maintained there ).
2. The S user Id is not detected.
3. How should we connect and synchronize the Solman of our system with that of other external Solman system so that we can directly see the issues/support messages in the landscape of that Solman system.
Similarly there are various questions related to the Solman.
This is a learning project for us but soon we are to implement this in actual business scenarios.
Can you please suggest any Best Practice kind of guide/document/paper for the purpose?
PL guide guys,
Thanks and Regards,
Yuvi.

Hi Fabricius,
Thanks for providing that link.
It lists a lot of information but not what we are looking for.
e.g. If you see the Service Desk under Incident Management, in the prerequisites itself it says that "The Service Desk is configured for the Solution Manager according to the configuration guide."
And this is exactly we are trying to do - Configure the SolMan system.
Now which is this "Configuration Guide" mentioned in this prerequisite?
In the "http://service.sap.com/instguides" ,or on SAPNET itself for that matter, I could not find it!
Any idea?
Pl help.
Regards,
Yuvi.

Help: Best Practice Baseline Package experience

All,
Can I ask for some feedback from folks who've used the Best Practice Baseline package before - I'm in a project implementing ECC 6.0 and we're planning to use this package to quickly set up and demo the system to the business. I've limited experience in config and system setup so your advice is much appreciated
Specifically my questions:
1. Has anyone used the package for a similar purpose (quick setup to demo to business)? Does it save a lot of time or should our team just configure the system manually? Are there pitfalls I should be aware of?
2. I understand a limited amount of config / master data customisation can be done and there's even a wizard. Is it effective and error-free - i.e., will I be better off by installing the base package and make changes later manually ?
3. Assuming after the demo we have firmed business requirements, which approach would be faster and easier? Configuring from scratch vs. using existing BP baseline then doing delta configuration?
4. Does the documentation tell me exactly what was configured and the settings used?
Appreciate any help and insight you can offer, thanks!!

Dear Jin,
The following help link should answer your queries:
http://help.sap.com/bp_grcv152/GRC_US/Documentation/SAP_APJ_BP_Study_2006_CS.ppt#418,1,Slide of SAP Best Practice
Regardes,
Naveen.

Experiences on SAP Best Practise packages?

We are considering applying a specific SAP Best Practise package on top of ECC6. It will be a new ECC6 installation.
I have read the BP faq pages http://help.sap.com/bp_bw370/html/faq.htm and read note 1225909 - How to apply SAP Best Practices - and the specific note and the specific installation guide for required Best Practise package.
I understand that applying a BP package is something not that easy but should speed up the implementation process.
If you have been participating in a project that implemented SAP Best Practises on ERP, would you please share your experiences with me.
Here are some topics for discussion:
(BP=SAP Best Practise package)
BP implementation could make constraints to your future EHP or SP upgrades, while BP is tightly linked to certain EHP and SP-level?
SAP support?
Installation process including config steps according BP installation guide is longer than usual, while there can be multiple activation and configuration steps done by others than basis consultants?
BPs are country dependent. What if your application is used multinationally?
What if you later find BP unneccessary?
generate difficulties in the beginning but did considerably speed up reaching the final goal compared to ECC6 without BP.
traps to fall in?
typical issues that basis staff has to notify when preparing/installing a ERP system to be with BP?
positive/negative things
I am not saying above statements are true or false. Just wanted to charge you giving comments.
Br: KimZi
Edited by: Kimmzini Siewoinenski on Aug 11, 2009 8:35 PM

Hi,
Make sure your web service URL correct in Live Office connection and also in Xcelsius data manager.
Did you check all connection in refresh button proprties? you may try selecting "Refresh after component are Loaded" in Refresh button properties Behavior tab.
I think Xcelsius refresh are serial refresh so it may be possible that first component refresh is still in progress but you are expecting other component to refresh.
Click on "Enable Load Cursor" in data manager's Usage tab, it will give you visibility of refresh. If anything refreshing you will see hour glass.
Cheers

Best Practises for Email Addresses?

Hi Guys,
Are there any best practise guides / documents / etc. for configuring user's E-mail addresses? We have a large turnaround of users and obviously sometimes they have the same name as previous/current employees (we
do not delete any old accounts / mailboxes.) My question is whether or not it is OK to use numbers in an email address (i.e. [email protected])?
Thanks
Stephen

Hi,
It's OK to use numbers in an email address.
The format of email addresses is local-part@domain where the local-part may be up to 64 characters long and the domain name may have a maximum of 253 characters.
The local-part of the email address may use any of these ASCII characters RFC 5322
Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a–z, A–Z) (ASCII: 65-90, 97-122)
Digits 0 to 9 (ASCII: 48-57)
Characters !#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~ (ASCII: 33, 35-39, 42, 43, 45, 47, 61, 63, 94-96, 123-126)
Character . (dot, period, full stop) (ASCII: 46) provided that it is not the first or last character, and provided also that it does not appear two or more times consecutively (e.g. John..[email protected] is not allowed.).
Special characters are allowed with restrictions. They are:
Space and "(),:;<>@[\] (ASCII: 32, 34, 40, 41, 44, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 91-93)
The restrictions for special characters are that they must only be used when contained between quotation marks, and that 3 of them (The space, backslash \ and quotation mark " (ASCII: 32, 92, 34)) must also
be preceded by a backslash \ (e.g. "\ \\\"").
For more information, please refer to this similar thread.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/69f393aa-d555-4f8f-bb16-c636a129fc25/what-are-valid-and-invalid-email-address-characters
Best Regards.

SAP BEST PRACTISE BI-Purchasing Volume Dashboard issue

Hello,
I am working on Purchasing Volume Dashboard (from SAP BEST PRACTISE BI package), I adapted Crystal Reports sources of this dashboard so that they connect to our local database and successfully generated the Export.xls, I Imported this Export.xls file into Purchasing Volume Dashboard.xls, added and configured Live Office Connections (ticking"Refresh before components are loaded" for each Live Connections.
The issue is that when I click on PREVIEW the four components (Charts and Scorecard) don't refresh simultaneously.
I have to click once on REFRESH button to have the first component refreshed with data then to click again to have the second component refreshed then click again and again !
I don't understand why those components don't refresh in the same time !!
Did one of you ever encountered this issue ?
many thanks for your help,
Regards
Christiane

Hi,
Make sure your web service URL correct in Live Office connection and also in Xcelsius data manager.
Did you check all connection in refresh button proprties? you may try selecting "Refresh after component are Loaded" in Refresh button properties Behavior tab.
I think Xcelsius refresh are serial refresh so it may be possible that first component refresh is still in progress but you are expecting other component to refresh.
Click on "Enable Load Cursor" in data manager's Usage tab, it will give you visibility of refresh. If anything refreshing you will see hour glass.
Cheers

Best Practise for rebooting ISE Nodes?

Hello Community,
I administer an ISE installation with two nodes (I am not an ISE Specialist, my job is just to manage the user/mac-adresses... but now I have to move my ISE Nodes from one VMWare Cluster to another VMWare Cluster.
(Both VMWare environments are connected to our enterprise network, but are different environments. vMotion not possible)
I would shutdown ISE02, move it to our new VMWare environment and start it again.
Than I would do this with our ISE01 Node...
Are there any best practises for doing this? (Shutdown application first, stopl replikation etc)?
Can I really simply reboot an ISE Node - or have I consider something bevor I doing this? After I doing this?
Any tasks after reboot?
Thank you for any answer!
ISE01
Administration, Monitoring, Policy Service
PRI(A), SEC(M)
ISE02
Administration, Monitoring, Policy Service
SEC(A), PRI(M)

There is a lot to consider here. If changing environments means changing IP Address and IP Scopes, then your policies, profiles, and dACLs would also have to change among other things. If this is the case, create a new ISE VM in the new environment using the built in evaluation license and recreate the deployment from the old environment using the addressing scheme of the new environment. Then spin-up a new Secondary node and register it on the Primary. Once this is done, you can re-host the license from your old environment onto your new environment. You can use this tool to re-host:
https://tools.cisco.com/SWIFT/LicensingUI/loadDemoLicensee?FormId=3999
If IP Addressing is to remain the same, it gets simpler.
First, and always, perform a configuration and operational backup.
If downtime is not an issue, or if you have a maintenance window of an hour or so: Simply shut down both nodes. Transfer them to the New Environment and turn them on, Primary Node first, of course.
If downtime is an issue, shut down the Secondary Node and transfer it to the New Environment. Start the Secondary Node and when it is up, shut down the Primary Node. Once services on the primary node have stopped, promote the Secondary Node to Primary Node.
Transfer the OLD Primary Node to the New Environment and turn it on. It should assume the role of Secondary Node. If it does not, assign that role through the GUI.
Remember, the correct way to shut down an ISE node is:
application stop ise
halt
By using these commands, the risk of database corruption decreases by about 90% (Remember to always backup).
Please Rate Helpful posts and mark this question as answered if, in fact, this does answer your question. Otherwise, feel free to post follow-up questions.
Charles Moreton

Importing best practices baseline package (IT) ECC 6.0

Hello
I hope is the right forum,
i've a sap release ECC 6.00 with stack abap 14.
In this release i have to install the preconfigured smartforms that now are called
best practices baseline package. These pacakges are localized and mine is for Italy:
SAP Best Practices Baseline Package (IT)
the documents about the installation say that the required support package level has to be with stack 10.
And it says :
"For cases when the support package levels do not match the Best Practices requirements, especially when HIGHER support package levels are implemented, only LIMITED SUPPORT can be granted"
Note 1044256
By your experience , is it possible to do this installation in this support package condition?
Thanks
Regards
Nicola Blasi

Hy
a company wants to implement the preconfigured smartforms in a landscape ECC 6.0
I think that these smartforms can be implement using the SAP best practices , in particular the baseline package ....see service.sap.com/bestpractices --> baseline package; once installed you can configured the scenario you want....
the package to download is different each other ,depends the localization...for example italy or other country but this is not important at the moment....
the problem is the note 1044256...it says that to implement this, i must have the support package level requested in this note...not lower and above all not higher.......
before starting with this "baseline package" installation i'd like to know if i can do it because i have a SP level of 14 for aba e basis for example....while the notes says that want a SP level of 10 for aba e basis.
what i can do?
i hope is clear now....let me know
thanks
Nicola

Best practises for replication

Hi,
I want to know what is best practise for duration of replicaation of database between two Cisco ACS.
Regards,
Atif.

Hi Atif,
The replication time interval should always be higher.
Reason: Everytime you replicate the data it requires ACS services to restart so doing this frequently may affect your production enviroment.
However, if you want to replicate internal user's password then there is an option to replicate password changes right awayvwithout a full replication. You can enable this option under System Configuration -> Local Password Management. With this enabled you could potentially set the replications to a larger interval.
It also depend how often you do changes in your ACS. If its normal then I would say set it to every sunday 12:00 PM.
This is how replication happens:
The primary ACS stops its authentication and creates a copy of the ACSinternal database components that it is configured to replicate. During this
step, if AAA clients are configured properly, those that usually use the primary ACS fail over to another ACS. The primary ACS resumes its authentication service.
After the preceding events on the primary ACS, the database replication process continues on the secondary ACS. The secondary ACS stops its authentication service and replaces its database components with the database components that it received from the primary ACS. During this step, if AAA clients are configured properly, those that usually use the secondary ACS fail over to another ACS. The secondary ACS resumes its authentication service.
HTH
Regards,
JK
Plz rate helpful posts-

Best Practises for Backup & Recovery windows

Hi All,
Could you please let me know the following .
1. Best Practises to be followed for backup & recovery on windows server 2008
2. how to plan for the DR on windows
Regards
Mohammed. Abdul Muqeet

Mohammed Abdul Muqeet wrote:
Hi All,
Could you please let me know the following .
1. Best Practises to be followed for backup & recovery on windows server 2008
As far as the Oracle database is concerned, best practices on Windows server 2008 are exactly the same as for any other OS.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/backup.112/e10642/toc.htm
(and my own prejudice, developed over 30+ years in this industry and working with Oracle on Windows beginning with Oracle 7.3 on windows 3.11, is that best practice is to stay as far away from Windows as possible)
2. how to plan for the DR on windowsAs far as the Oracle database is concerned, best practices on Windows server 2008 are exactly the same as for any other OS.
Backup everything. Get the backups off site. Perform regular DR drills. Document everything. Keep a copy of the documentation off site. (Doesn't do any good to have the DR manual located such that it gets destroyed in the same disaster that takes out your data center. ) Have an off-site DR site.
While it isn't in your lane as a DBA, you need to keep reminding managment that DR is about more than just the database, and even more than just the data center itself. If there is a physical disaster (ask the people in Oklahoma City about that ... over the years - multiple F5 tornadoes, plus a truck bomb) all kinds of infrastructure and documentation issues. What about important records (like the DR manual) that exist only in someone's desk drawer? Where are the business units going to set up shop and how are they going to connect to the restored database at the DR site?
I've seen DR manuals that got down to the detail of temporary housing for employees and how to get coffee at the DR site.
>
>
Regards
Mohammed. Abdul MuqeetEdited by: EdStevens on May 23, 2013 7:44 AM

RAID Level Configuration Best Practices

Hi Guys ,
We are building new Virtual environment for SQL Server and have to define RAID level configuration for SQL Server setup.
Please share your thoughts for RAID configuration for SQL data, log , temppdb, Backup files .
Files RAID Level
SQL Data File -->
SQL Log Files-->
Tempdb Data-->
Tempdb log-->
Backup files--> .
Any other configuration best practices are more then welcome .
Like Memory Setting at OS level , LUN Settings.
Best practices to configure SQL Server in Hyper-V with clustering.
Thank you
Please Mark As Answer if it is helpful. \\Aim To Inspire Rather to Teach A.Shah

Hi,
If you can shed some bucks you should go for RAID 10 for all files. Also as a best practice keeping database log and data files on different physical drive would give optimum performance. Tempdb can be placed with data file or on a different drive as per
usage. Its always good to use dedicated drive for tempdb
For memory setting.Please refer
This link for setting max server memory
You should monitor SQL server memory usage using below counters taken from
this Link
SQLServer:Buffer Manager--Buffer Cache hit ratio(BCHR): IIf your BCHR is high 90 to 100 Then it points to fact that You don't have memory pressure. Keep in mind that suppose somebody runs a query which request large amount of pages in that
case momentarily BCHR might come down to 60 or 70 may be less but that does not means it is a memory pressure it means your query requires large memory and will take it. After that query completes you will see BCHR risiing again
SQLServer:Buffer Manager--Page Life Expectancy(PLE): PLE shows for how long page remain in buffer pool. The longer it stays the better it is. Its common misconception to take 300 as a baseline for PLE. But it is not,I read it from
Jonathan Kehayias book( troubleshooting SQL Server) that this value was baseline when SQL Server was of 2000 version and max RAM one could see was from 4-6 G. Now with 200G or RAM coming into picture this value is not correct. He also gave the formula( tentative)
how to calculate it. Take the base counter value of 300 presented by most resources, and then determine a multiple of this value based on the configured buffer cache size, which is the 'max server memory' sp_ configure option in SQL Server, divided by 4 GB.
So, for a server with 32 GB allocated to the buffer pool, the PLE value should be at least (32/4)*300 = 2400. So far this has done good to me so I would recommend you to use it.
SQLServer:Buffer Manager--CheckpointPages/sec: Checkpoint pages /sec counter is important to know about memory pressure because if buffer cache is low then lots of new pages needs to be brought into and flushed out from buffer pool,
due to load checkpoint's work will increase and will start flushing out dirty pages very frequently. If this counter is high then your SQL Server buffer pool is not able to cope up with requests coming and we need to increase it by increasing buffer pool memory
or by increasing physical RAM and then making adequate changes in Buffer pool size. Technically this value should be low if you are looking at line graph in perfmon this value should always touch base for stable system.
SQLServer:Buffer Manager--Freepages: This value should not be less you always want to see high value for it.
SQLServer:Memory Manager--Memory Grants Pending: If you see memory grants pending in buffer pool your server is facing SQL Server memory crunch and increasing memory would be a good idea. For memory grants please read this article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlqueryprocessing/archive/2010/02/16/understanding-sql-server-memory-grant.aspx
SQLServer:memory Manager--Target Server Memory: This is amount of memory SQL Server is trying to acquire.
SQLServer:memory Manager--Total Server memory This is current memory SQL Server has acquired.
For other settings I would like you to discuss with vendor. Storage questions IMO should be directed to Vendor.
Below would surely be a good read
SAN storage best practice For SQL Server
SQLCAT best practice for SQL Server storage
Please mark this reply as answer if it solved your issue or vote as helpful if it helped so that other forum members can benefit from it.
My TechNet Wiki Articles

Best practises Subversion and Data modeler

hello, i'am looking for some best practises regarding subversion and datamodeler.
A team of 10 analysts create several releases of our product over time.
Within one release you'll find several change requests.
The application itself contains about 700tables so performance is important.
I want to establish a lean working method were analyst can focus on their job - design.
Till now I think to create one trunk containing the db model let's call it v17.00
An analyst could create their designs in separate projects grouped by change request eg CR1234.
When development starts i would compare the trunk model with their change request to generated the alter script.
Afterwards i would import their design CR1234 into the trunk.
Note : it's possible that a change request got cancelled - that's why i opt for a design per change request.
This way of working seems much leaner than the setup of branches and merging.
My opinion, being a novice subversion user, is that setting up branches and merging is "more complex" and might causes frustration for designers.
Anyone having a simular setup or advice ?
kr
chris

Hi Sam,
Let me add my two cents here, when speaking about MAN deployments the name of the game is MPLS, so I guess you are using the same on your Cat 6500s and connecting your customers on 3550s using Vlans.
Regarding your questions:
a) Upgrading Ethernet to L3 for traffic shaping: This is basically done at 3550, so I suppose that's what you intend to do, plus you will be letting Spokes talk to only Hub site, so inter Vlan, atleast between Hub and each spoke will be required, hence inter valn routing. Other way is to configure P2P circuits between Hub site with Vlan mapping (per spoke) and Spoke sites with Port mapping, in this scenario Inter Vlan routing is not a necessity.
b) Security: This depends on what exact architecure you have deployed, in my case I have simply installed a Gateway router with BGP peering with PEs, a separate VRF alongwith redistribution does the trick.
Hope I addresses the query correctly, let me know if that helped..
Cheers
~sultan

Oracle Tuxedo Security Best Practises

Hi,
I am new in Oracle Tuxedo. I searching about Tuxedo Security best practises. I found many informations in Tuxedo Documentation but if anybody have more informations, i am very interested.
Such as:
- ULOG files permissions => The Tuxedo administrator must not have write acces on this files but if I remove this right, does Tuxedo can write in this files ?
- tlisten.pw => What is the encryption type and can i add only one user password or more ? It's true that there is no user login ?
- tpsysadm and tpsysop => What do they serve ? and where are stored their passwords ant how can i change it ?
- Use of LLE/SSL => What is the best practise, use of LLE and SSL or just LLE, just SSL ?
Thanks a lot !
Best regards

Hi,
welcome to the wonderful (and sometimes byzantine) world of Tuxedo!
You have a couple of interesting questions and I'll try to shed some light on some of them. Disclaimer: I'll assume that you run Tuxedo on some flavor of Linux or Unix. If you're running on Windows, some of these thoughts won't make much sense to you, sorry about that.
When I install the Tuxedo software, I usually let a dedicated user (e g "tuxedo") be the owner of the installed software and files (include files, FML field definitions and so on).
When I create a Tuxedo application, I have a separate user account (e g "some_application") running each application. In this way, an application running wild cannot overwrite or delete any Tuxedo system files, neither another application's files, only its own files, due to file system permissions. In this case, "some_application" will execute your Tuxedo servers and also need to be the owner of the directory where the ULOG will reside (remember that the application need to be able to create a new file every new day).
The tlisten.pw file is not for "user" passwords, it's primary use is to authenticate the different (physical) machines working together in a bridged (clustered) Tuxedo application. It is also used in conjunction with TSAM monitoring, although I have no first-hand experience with that (yet). I've had problems trying to have more than one secret in the tlisten.pw file, your mileage may vary...
When it comes to tpsysadm and tpsysop, you should think of them more as roles rather than actual users. These roles may perform special actions (such as starting/stopping/re-configuring) in your application. Depending on your security settings, any user may (try to) act as tpsysadm and/or tpsysop. Any user passwords you may have are connected to the actual users rather than the roles tpsysadm or tpsysop. All this depends on your settings for SECURITY and AUTHSVC in your ubbconfig. There is no simple/easy answer here, I'm afraid... it all depends on how you have set up your security (USER_AUTH is a good start, but you need to supply an AUTHSVC in that case).
When it comes to encryption, my experience is only with LLE. It simply works. Using SSL I suspect there will be more challenges setting up certificates and such things. The way I understand it you either use LLE or SSL for a given type of communication (i e WSL or TDOMAIN), you can't use both simultaneously.
Hope this helps and I may be able to elaborate further if there's a particular area that seems particularly foggy :-)
/Per

Any best practise to archive PO's which does not have corresponding invoice

Hello,
As part of initial implementation and conversion, We have a lot of PO's / LTA created but their corresponding invoices were never converted into SAP from legacy system. SAP archiving program tags those as not business complete as the invoice qty does not match with po qty (there are no invoices to start with). Just flagging 'delivery complete and final confirmation' of PO does not help. Anybody ran into similar situation and how did they resolve it? I am reluctant to enhance standard SAP archiving program to bypass those checks and that is my only last option. Any SAP recommended Note / best practise etc would help.
Satyajit Deb

Where is the invoice posted?
was the invoice posted in the legacy system?
Clearance of GR/IR account with MR11 will usually close such POs.

When granting a user or a role access to a group of pages, it is best practise to grant that access to what type of file or component?

My question is same while granting user or role in the application, what is the best practise? How to decide the level of applying role to pagedef's, xml files, or some other file that i have missed out.

As for my concern I would go for page definition files.

Configure "best practise baseline" manually

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for