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I have been working on SAP (Userside) for four years. I have BS degree in Accounting and MBA in Finance. Lots of experience in accounting, finance and systems. Currently am working as a SQL DBA. Also I develop application in Access. I was suggested to become SAP FICO consultant. I need help if some one can guide me to the right track as far as getting trained in FICO and get certified. By the way I am in Dallas Texas.

Following are the useful links to access good self study material on SAP different modules
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http://www.easymarketplace.de/online-pdfs.php                            All the modules Help documentation is available
http://help.sap.com/bp_blv1470/BL_India/index.htm                      Best Practices is very useful other than the regular SAP Help (Basic Customization documents are available for all industry types)
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http://www.sap-img.com/                                                            Basic SAP Customization can be learnt for all modules
http://www.sapsuperusers.com/                                                  Login Id required (Can be registered Free) Itutor and .Sim files are very useful along with SAP certification material for most of modules
http://www.sapfans.com/                                                            Login is optional (Can be registered Free) User forums for Knowledge transfer is good.
http://www.sapfans.com/sapfans/sapfaq/sapcert.htm
Hope the above links will help you.

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New to SAP...Doubts regarding ALE.

Hi all,
I am new to SAP.
Can any one please explain me the following.!
What is the difference between EDI and ALE?
What is Logical system, Port, RFC destination, Customer Distribution Model, Partner Profile, Message type, Message control and if any of the important terminology that I have missed in the ALE concept?
Please help to explain me clearly in detail as I have no knowledge reg these and tried searching for info in various links, but still found difficult to understand?
Many thanks in advance....
Regards
Nani Ancha

ALE/EDI
Purpose
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Application Link Enabling (ALE) are used for exchanging business data between different systems.
For both these forms of communication, you require the IDoc Interface. The IDoc interface is made up of the definition of a data structure and the processing logic of this data structure. The data structure is the IDoc. The IDoc is the general exchange format of the communicating systems. IDocs can be sent using different methods (for example, Structure linkRFC or as a file).
Application Link Enabling (ALE)
You distribute data using ALE if you want to communicate from one system to one or more other (mostly internal) systems. ALE transfers data in IDoc format and uses the methods of tRFC for data transfer.
· ALE enables the integration of business processes across several SAP or non-SAP systems.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
You use EDI if you want to exchange business application documents with an (external) partner system (for example, a customer or vendor). The SAP system sends EDI messages in IDoc format to an EDI subsystem, where they are converted to a universal EDI standard (UN/EDIFACT or ANSI/X12). This enables communication with non-SAP systems.
· By definition, two partners are involved in the process in an EDI application scenario: The sender and the recipient of an EDI message.

New to SAP PI, I need more information on SAP PI Topics

Hi Guys,
I'm New to SAP PI, I need more information on SAP PI Topics which are related to Development and configuration.
i have gather some information please add more topics and major scenarios if i missed out.
SAP PI Topics:
1.     Mapping
u2022     Standard Functions
u2022     User-defined Functions
u2022     Message Mapping
u2022     Multi-Mapping
u2022     Java, XSLT mapping overview
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u2022     Integration Directory
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u2022     Runtime Workbench / Monitoring
u2022     Architecture
5.     PI as Component of SAP NetWeaver
u2022     Positioning
6.     Overview and Basic Concepts
u2022     Adapters & J2EE Adapter framework
u2022     Business Process Management
u2022     Mapping
7.     Adapters
8.     Technical Connectivity for communication with SAP and non-SAP systems
u2022     File/FTP(S) (File Systems / FTP Servers)
u2022     JDBC (RDBMS systems)
u2022     JMS (Messaging systems, e. g. MQSeries, SonicMQ)
u2022     SOAP (Web Services based on SOAP)
u2022     WS-RM (Web Services based on WS Reliable Messaging)
u2022     HTTP_AAE Adapter
u2022     Plain HTTP(S)
u2022     Mail (Mail Servers via SMTP, IMAP4, POP3)
u2022     SAP Business Connector (SAP BC)
u2022     Marketplace (SAP Marketplaces)
9.     Application Connectivity
u2022     RFC
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u2022     IDoc
u2022     Proxy (ABAP and Java)
10.     SAP Industry Business Packages (contain adapters and content)
u2022     RNIF 2.0 (RosettaNet)
u2022     RNIF 1.1 (RosettaNet)
u2022     CIDX (RNIF 1.1)
11.     Advanced Adapter Engine Extended u2013 AAE
u2022     PI as Infrastructure for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
SAP PI Scenarios:
u2022     SOAP to JDBC scenario
u2022     RFC to FILE scenario
u2022     Multiple IDOC's to File scenario
u2022     File to File scenario
u2022     File to RFC scenario using BPM
u2022     File to JDBC scenario
u2022     Idoc to File scenario
u2022     Abap Proxy to XI scenario
u2022     Idoc Flatfile to Idoc XML Scenario

You may search for all basic topics on SCN and you will get required information. Such basic questions should be searched before posting. Thread locked.
Regards,
Prateek Raj Srivastava

New to SAP, need some direction

Hi everyone, pretty much as the title states, I'm brand new to SAP and I need some direction as to what's the best way to start learning it.
To make my long story short, the company I work for was going to transition from a home-grown Sybase application to SAP Business One. 9 months and $150k later, they decide SAP sucks. Which upsets me because there's about 20 pages of SAP related stuff on all the job hunting sites and I'm always looking to "broaden my horizons" or something like that.
So now that no one using SAP... I want to start taking it apart and learning how it works. I just have no idea where to begin. I looked at the FAQs and all, but I don't think I'm even at that point yet.
So how can someone completely new to SAP get started?
Thanks in advance.
~Steve

Steve,
As an SAP customer, these are the resources I use on a daily to learn SAP Business One:
It looks like you've already found the SDN site:
SAP Business One SDK
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/businessone?rid=/webcontent/uuid/6207e283-0a01-0010-6c84-bacd2745c33f">sap [original link is broken] [original link is broken]
<a href="https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SCENARIO=01100035870000000183&_SHORTKEY=01100035870000680298&_ADDINC=011000358700002837782005E&">Education</a> - More eLearning
<a href="https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SCENARIO=01100035870000000183&_SHORTKEY=01100035870000680297&_ADDINC=011000358700002837782005E&">Documentation</a> - I recommend the How-To guides
Here are two other SAP Business One forums (registration required):
<a href="https://www.sap.com/community/int/forums/ShowForum.epx?ForumID=202&kNtBzmUK9zU">SAP Business One Community</a>
<a href="http://www.asug.com/DiscussionForums/DiscussionForums/tabid/312/view/topics/forumid/244/Default.aspx">SAP Busines One</a>
Good luck,
Mike

How to log in to the new installed SAP ABAP instance ?

Dear Experts,
In SAP ERP 2005 installation,
I have done central system installation, Now I need to perform postinstallation steps,
Could you please tell me, how to log in to the new installed SAP ABAP instance and do the post installation?
Regards,
Madhavan K

Hi,
Check the list of post installation steps:
http://www.saptechies.com/post-installation-steps-for-ecc-60/
From my point of view basic post installation steps are:
- Installing SAP License (from http://service.sap.com/licensekeys)
- Setup TMS (STMS)
- Import profiles (RZ10)
- Client Copy (SCC*)
- Create users (SU01)
However further many steps are required as per your requirements. Cehck the link for more detailed steps.
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What's is new in Sap Portal 7.1?

What's is new in Sap Portal 7.1? are new features?

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Bad news on the Graphic chips in most iMac's though, there soldered in on the logic boards.
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I'm new in SAP . Would like to have some advice

Hi Friends ...
Hello all , perhaps I'm posting the thread into the correct thread category , I'm really new in SAP and currently starting to put my interest into SAP . I'm currently doing IT Support (Unix Support). Previously I have no ideas about SAP and from my knowledge , jumping into sap is too costly until I found about getting to SAP academy through E-Learning which cost half of the actual normal classroom method of getting SAP certification . And obviously it pulled my interest . A few opinion and advices I would like to gather :
1) Do you think that it worth for me to spend money for SAP certification ?
2) What is the career prospect of an SAP certified ?
3) What is normally the routine of the SAP consultant ? in term of the job dsecription .. I don have any ideas what is the scope of a SAP consultant .
4) Is the SAP job marketable ? internationally ?
5) What is the possibly of getting job for a newly certified SAP w/out experience
6) Which is the best module that I should enroll for the certification ?
7) What is normally market price for the SAP certified salary .
What is other tips/advice from you for me before i start investing on getting on the SAP certification . Many thanks in advance for the advices .
Thank you
Regards

Hi,
Well looking at your queries I can suggest you to spend some time looking for the kind of requirements in the markets ( this you can find from different job portals). This answers your query number 2) and 3)
1) Do you think that it worth for me to spend money for SAP certification ?
This is an investment and it is really worth it
2) What is the career prospect of an SAP certified ?
As mentioned earlier, please check this yourself
3) What is normally the routine of the SAP consultant ? in term of the job dsecription .. I don have any ideas what is the scope of a SAP consultant .
As mentioned earlier, please check this yourself
4) Is the SAP job marketable ? internationally ?
Yes
5) What is the possibly of getting job for a newly certified SAP w/out experience
Good depending on your previous work experience
6) Which is the best module that I should enroll for the certification ?
This is always dependent on 3 things:
1) Your academic qualifications
2) Your professionsal experience
3) Your interest
7) What is normally market price for the SAP certified salary .
Depends on your experience and as you are from IT market it varies a lot depending on your experience and the requirement of the company
Hope this helps you.
Do let me know in case of any specific queries.
Regards,
Rakesh

Reg: New to SAP

Dear All,
First, I introduce myself.
I am Navaneeth, from Mechanical Engineering background.
I shifted into IT industry and I have 7+ years of experience in Web development technologies like Microsoft and LAMP.
Now I am planning move my career with SAP. I am completely new to SAP.
I have few queries, please clarify it.
1. Is the right time to move SAP from my career background?
2. How is the future Market trend for SAP related jobs?
3. Which one will be the best area for me to enter in to the SAP? (Technical or Functional or both)
4. What are modules will have the more value and less population?
5. Will ABAP is suitable for me?
6. Should I need to do a training/certification?
7. Should I start my SAP career as a fresher or can I use my existing experience?
8. How can I plan my career with SAP?
Please help me to move on forward.
Thanks & regards,
Navaneeth.

Hi,
to 1 & 2: SAP is the best in the IT market for companies. It is a good idea to work with it, since the IT branch was not affected by with world crisis in 2009 and 2009; additionally, withing the IT, SAP consultants are the best paid.
to 3: you should start programming with ABAP considering that you´re technichal. It´ll be a good start for a newbie.
to 4: difficult to know. Some are not very used; therefore there are not many consultants.
to 5: like 3
to 6: traning yes, certification no. Read my answer to a similar [post here|;.
to 7: you´ll be a newbie and your experience will play a minimal role, if any. You´ll start a new life, professionally speaking, so companies will consider you in the first step as a trainee.

Cycle Counting - New on SAP

We are new on sap. So most of our materials have never been counted. I have run mibc(ABC analysis), then I ran micn by material group to generate a cycle count. One of my 'A' materials is missing. It's in stock and we've never counted it before. Shouldn't everything that hasn't been counted come up on my cycle count? If I extend my cycle count date out, it comes up, but it's not due until 6/1/2009 to be counted.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

1. What was the planned count date range that did not show the one A material and the range that did?
I originally ran the count for 5/6/2009 - the A item was not included
When I extended my date range to 5/6/2009 to 8/30/2009, the item was included, however it wasn't due to count until 6/1/2009, and it was being placed on a physical inventory count sheet for that future date.
2. What other checks and values are you using in MICN?
Selection Criteria:
plant - 3020
Storage Location - 0001
Material Group - KIDD
materials marked for deletion - checked
Stock Level:
materials w/o zero stock -checked
Data in Phys Inv Doc Header:
Date 5/6/2009
Batch Input Session:
Issue Log - checked
Name of Session - MB_MI01_CN
Max. No. of Items - 333
Sort by:
Material Group - checked
Enter grouping criterion in doc header - checked
What is the stock level of this material?
52 unrestricted
I did find also that the consultant that configured our cycle counts made an error. The A items are set to count 2 times a year. But would that make a difference? I thought everything that wasn't counted and was in stock for that material group would show up.

New in SAP-SD

Dear All SAP Guru's
i'm new in SAP world i have 2yrs exp in SAP support & currently i'm working as SAP core team member for SD module i want to all SD related documents or send any link for the same
please help.....

Please go through these links
[SAP SD Discussion Forum and Sales/Distribution Tips |http://sap-img.com/sap-sd.htm]
[Sales and Distribution |http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/92/df293581dc1f79e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm]
Also in this forum, on top of your post, you can see a tab "Filter". Make use of this option, go through the posts which were all the live issues faced by the members and the solutions given therein. This would help you a lot.
Similarly, if you have any issues, you have another option "Search Forum". Type the text related to your problem and execute. You will get tons of inputs from there.
thanks
G. Lakshmipathi

How to search my own posts/threads in "SAP Community Network Forums"?

Dear Friends,
How to search my own posts/threads in "SAP Community Network Forums"?

Dear Pierre DOMINIQUE,
Thanks for your information, but I know It very well. Lets say I have around 200 posts in the forum, some are unsolved and rest are solved. Now I want to find a old solved/answered post/thread by a key-word, how to do it? ... Actually I asked for this.
Thanks in advance for your right answers.

Am new to SAP.

Hi all,
Am new to SAP, I chosen to be a BASIS, am studying only through Google, SAP help. Recently i came to know about SDN. It will be very helpful, if you get me some links to have basic knowledge in R/3 and Netweaver.
Thanks,
Sri.

Hi Sri,
I think it will be so useful to you.
The R/3 Basis System: Overview
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/54/57fe09786a11d194c90000e8353423/frameset.htm
Configurations Overview
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/bb/9f12104b9b11d189750000e8322d00/frameset.htm
Installation
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/33/7c863c593a8767e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
Monitoring Multiple SAP R/3 Systems
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/42/a1cfb0fc4111d194bf00a0c93033f7/frameset.htm
Just all links are of help.sap.com, but this is not enough, read it and if you have any doubt, let me know.
Regards,
Dinesh.

New to SAP XI BPM scenario File -- RFC -- File

Hi All,
I am new to SAP XI BPM,
My Scenario is : the input parameter for the RFC is sent through a file and the response from the RFC comes into XI which is then written into a file.
Here my dought is How many Container I have to create... and tell me what is use of Container...
Thanks & Regards
Siva

Well in short I would like to say is
A Conatiner is like a table whose structre is having two fields namely ELEMENT and VALUE so it is nearly similar to decalring variables in the general programming , but here in the workflow terms we call them as Container elements. and Conatiner is a place where all the defined variables are stored with Name/Value pair.
Now coming to the issue , the file which is imported from XI make sure that it has the structure as Name//Type/Value
Count the number of lines and create the conatiner dynamically by using the class CL_SWF_CNT_CONTAINER from the ABAP program it has lots of methods check it .

New to SAP BW/BI and Crystal Report

Hi Experts,
I have worked on Dataware house side but I am new to SAP BI ( had a training of 60 hours). I have got an offer for a job where I will be working on BI and Crystal reports as a SAP BW analyst.
I am looking for some help regarding BI + Crystal Report combo. A link to a guide, webcast, your experience or any other info.
I appreciate your time, spending to read my thread. Any of your help/post would help me and others who are inspired by SAP solutions.
This is a wonderful forum, I am reading past threads and floating on ocean of information. Thanks from bottom of my heart
Have a wonderful day ahead.
Regards,
Nit

Hi,
First you can Download the Crystal Report trial version and play around with the sample database in order to get use to interface and features.
http://www.businessobjects.com/product/catalog/crystalreports/
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1-http://help.sap.com
2-Business Objects tab
Regards,
Adil

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