Small Parcel Shipping and Manifesting Systems

What small parcel shipping and manifesting system are you using? Is it integrated with SAP? What are the pros and cons? We are researching systems and would appreciate any input. We are familiar with XPS and Shiptec, but are there others that you would recommend? Thanks!

Have you concidered XSI Express Shipping Interface from SAP. This connects to UPS/FEDEX directly.

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Shipping and delivery status from R/3 to CRM

Hi all,
we are creating sales orders in CRM and replicating it to R/3. CRM is the owner of the document.
Now whenever changes are done to sales order in CRM, the changes are replicated to R/3.
Let's say the shipping status is updated in R/3. Now the requirement is the changes need to be replicated
back to CRM.
I can use the scenario X + Y or X alone. But with X or X + y scenario Once I make changes in R/3 then the
document owner changes to R/3. this means any further changes in CRM will not be replicated back to R/3.
I require all changes from CRM to be replicated to R/3, but from R/3 I require the shipping and delivery status to be replicated back to CRM. How could this be achieved.
It would be great if you could share the experiences.
Thanks
Jothi.

Hi all,
I have a similar requirement. Can you please tell me how to go with it?
The requirement is to send the user status from CRM (where the request is generated) to R3 (where the material is processed).
The user status of the return order in CRM should be sent real-time to R3. Any updates to the user status in CRM should result in a corresponding change in the user status in R3. Any updates to the user status in R3 should trigger a corresponding change to the user status in CRM. All user statuses must be available in BI/BW for reporting and analytical requirements.
From R3 to CRM Standard R3-CRM middleware exchanges information between the two systems any time a transaction is created or changed. At this point the order information is exchanged between the two systems depending on whether the item or the header level data is changed in R3. The development should be able to download the user status at the header & the line item level when the middleware brings down R3 sales transaction data to CRM. For the sake of simplicity the status profile in R3 and CRM will be defined exactly the same therefore we do not need a mapping table between the two systems. This information should also be exchanged in case the line item is deleted / cancelled / rejected.
The same from CRM to R/3.
Processing restrictions :
This should not be transaction, item category or status profile specific so that as and when a new transaction type, item category or a status profile is added it should still be allowed to transfer between the two systems.
Should be developed as an enhancement to the standard middleware data stream between R3 and CRM.
Regards,
Raju

Ideas to improve the Rescue and Recovery System

Hi,
some weeks ago I ned to restore my system, while this process there was some difficulties with the Rescue and Recovery. But First my configuration:
I'm using a T61p with Windows Vista Ultimate installed.
On the System there are 5 Partitions
1. Rescue and Recovery
2. Windows Bootstrap
3. BitLocker Encrypted Windows Partition
4. Linux /boot
5. Encrypted Linux LVM
So, one morning I tried to start my ThinkPad and nothing worked anymore. After a Short time I found out that the boot sector of the windows bootstrap partition was corrupted. The Linux Partition worked fine and was startable with a GRUB CD-Rom.
Ich checked out the Rescue and Recovery system and was sad that I isn't possible to recover the boot sector of the bootstrap partition. The only way to rescue my system was to reinstall windows at all!
Thats a bad solution, because you can recover the boot sector with every OEM-DVD of Windows Vista, but this DVD is not available for a ThinkPad user.
So I backuped my files and reinstalled the system. While the reinstallation process rescue and recovery gives the option to install windows on C:. But on such a multiboot configuration it is not very clear what drive C: is. After some experiment I think he is taking the first parition after Rescue and Recovery or the first free space after it. At this place it would be much better if I can choose a parition for the installation.
So, if a Lenovo engineer is reading this, please think about to:
- Include some tools like boot sector recovering in the Rescue and Recovery system
- Adding a mode where you can choose the parition to install Windows.
Over and above that I'm really happy with my ThinkPad.
Thanks for reading.

Greetings,
This isn't so much a reply to Cobelius, or a solution, but a commiseration of sorts. Or at least an "I hear ya, buddy, I wish they'd improve some things about Rescue and Recovery, too."
I notice that no one else has replied to this thread. I hope at least that someone will read these posts, and pass 'em on to the appropriate developers.
Here's my story:
I am, overall, extremely happy with my brand, spanking new T500. So far, I'm only running a single OS, Vista Business 64.
However, I did make the following 'tweaks' to my setup, which brings out the flaws in the Rescue and Recovery software:
1) I used Truecrypt 6.1a to encrypt my system partition (leaving the original rescue partition intact)
(Side Note: Where my original drive C came with tons of empty space, I used DISKPART to shrink it a bit an created another primary partition as drive D. Hey, why the heck not? Originally, I wanted TrueCrypt to encrypt the entire drive, but this failed. Truecrypt said this was due to a hardware failure, but 20 hours of my life wasted scanning the drive with HDD Regenerator 1.51 revealed no bad sectors. So now Drive D is encrypted as an ordinary TrueCrypt container and mounted upon login. I'm okay with this solution, but if anyone wants to research why TrueCrypt couldn't do the whole disk, you have my thanks in advance.)
2) I bought a Maxtor BlackArmor(tm) hardware-encrypted USB external drive to use for my backups. I successfully used the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery tool to both create specific file backups as well as to image my entire drive C onto the BlackArmor device, once I mounted it (by running a built-in executable and supplying it with my secret password)
3) I set a Lenovo BIOS password for unlocking the boot hard drive.
So far, so good. I type the BIOS drive password, then theTrueCrypt password, and Vista takes over 12 minutes to become usable and, well, that's a Microsoft issue, isn't it?
But, here's the deal: WHAT IF I CAN'T BOOT FROM THE HARD DRIVE ANYMORE? Well, TrueCrypt made me create a bootable rescue CD which can restore my encrypted boot sector or permanently decrypt my hard drive. What it can also do is let me press the ESC key to boot without providing a password, which does a supposedly wonderful thing -- since it fails to boot my drive C, it takes me straight into the Lenovo Rescue And Recovery session.
The problem is, the Lenovo boot (version 4) takes me AUTOMATICALLY into a self-repair utility which wastes another 10 minutes of my time to finally tell me --d'uh-- that my boot sector is 'corrupted' (it isn't; it's merely ENCRYPTED by TrueCrypt. As it should be).
FLAW NUMBER 1: Rescue and Recovery should provide a default menu where automatic diagnosis is a CHOICE the user can elect not to make, or abort if it has begun.
FLAW NUMBER 2: You guys should enhance what appears to be a Vista PE environment (or BartPE, or whatever) with a few utilities, including an Explorer-like browser to examine the disk (which would snow nothing in my case, as my drives are encrypted), and a command prompt, and the ability to launch executables. The environment should also recognize USB drives.
As it happens, I used a third-party Vista PE rescue CD, Active@ Partition Recovery, to boot an environment having the utilities I needed. Using this tool, I was able to recognize a USB key that had TrueCrypt installed in 'traveller' mode (no windows registry keys needed). Running this app and providing my truecrypt password enabled me to unlock my Drive C, albeit by mounting it as another drive letter. This made it possible to read and write to my disk.
The encrypted Maxtor drive is visible, too, from this boot environment, but it appears as a CD-ROM drive, and yields no secrets until you run an executable file on it and enter the drive's password. And that worked, too. So I could find files to copy over to my hard drive, if I needed to.
However, in order to RESTORE files to my drive, I'd still need to be able to run Rescue and Recovery, or at least the Recovery portion. Which brings me to:
FUNDAMENTAL FLAW NUMBER 3: You need to create a Recovery tool that can run from within an external USB drive, without requiring shared .DLLs in various subfolders or windows registry entries. Lord knows, I certainly tried to copy RestoreNow.exe from C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery onto my Maxtor drive, along with whatever DLLs it called for, but it was hopeless. The damned thing just wouldn't run from the USB drive on the PE environment.
The way I see it, then, is that there really is no way to restore my hard drive should I suffer a catastrophic failure. Major bummer.
FUNDAMENTAL FLAW NUMBER 4: When I got my laptop, I created a series of recovery disks using the Lenovo supplied software. Booting with the first CD, however, only proved depressing, as I had to agree that the ONLY purpose for this CD was to recover my PC to factory-shipped condition. Which meant erasing my drive and restoring it with the contents of the other DVDs. But I want to restore what I backed up with Rescue and Recovery! My life SINCE the laptop shipped from the factory! Geez, Louise, why not let me choose to do THAT, too?
(Of course, the boot CD would need to allow me to execute the Maxtor program that unlocks my encrypted USB drive, and also let me execute TrueCrypt to unlock my hard drive.)
I sure hope someone forwards this to a developer who'll take it seriously, after s/he stops chuckling. You guys should just ship a usable Vista PE rescue CD with every laptop, I think. And a recovery-only tool that doesn't need DLLs or Registry Entries to run. It would help in so many ways.
In the meantime, I guess I'd better do all I can to ensure my laptop's hard drive doesn't die on me.
Again, other than for this teeny problem that "don't amount to a hill o' beans in this crazy world," I'm really happy with my T500.
Thanks for reading this, too. And happy holidays.

Classpath and manifest.mf

what is the difference between classpath, buildpath and a Manifest.mf paths?
I believe class path is used at run time to look for the classes referred in this path.
Build path is used to build the application i.e. to link the components used while compiling and building classes.
Manifest.MF is also used for runtime resolution.
What different purpose did classpath and manifest.mf serve?

If I understand you correctly, this is more of a general Java Question then a Java Servlet Question... but anyway...
The manifest.mf is defined for JARs. Your system CLASSPATH, and the classpath set on the command line are ignored for JARs, and only the CLASSPATH set in the manifest is used.
When running applications outside of JARs, then the system/command line CLASSPATH is used.
When running a web application inside a WAR, the server has its own classpath which will override that of the manifest and the system CLASSPATH.

Drop Ship and Consignment Warehouses.

Hi Everyone;
What is the main difference between a Drop Ship and a Consignment Warehouse. As per my understanding example for Drop Ship warehouse would be ebay, as if some company wants to sell it s products it will use ebay as a drop ship warehouse.
Consignment warehouse only has a accounting effect when the products is sold. so example of consignment warehouse will be like Honda selling it s cars through it s dealers..so if a dealer in new york sold one Honda car only then it will have an accounting and warehouse effect in it s headquarters in Detroit and Ny.
Please correct me if i am wrong as i always get confused in this. I am preparing for my B1 certification.
Thanks and Regards
Nitin

Your understanding is correct.
In addition to that, following is as per SAP Help Document
Drop Ship
Select to define the warehouse as a drop ship warehouse. Use when the company does not manage inventory, but receives commission for every order.
Drop ship warehouses cannot be used for serial or batch items.
Inventory Transfers as Customer Consignments
If you deliver items to your customer in the form of a consignment, you can use this function to enter the inventory transfer from your warehouse to the consignment stores in the system.
When items are withdrawn from the consignment stores at the customeru2019s site, you create an outgoing invoice for the appropriate quantity and specify that the items be delivered from the consignment stores.
You have to create a storage location for the consignment to enable the consignment inventory to be managed separately from the rest of your item inventory.
If you maintain consignment inventory for several customers, we advise creating a consignment store for each customer so that the inventory for each customer can be monitored more easily.
You can then display the consignment inventory using the warehouse reports.

Aggregating SD and Project Systems data

Hi,
We are using Project systems and SD in R3 and I have 0PS_C04 activated for standard PS reporting. I now need to combine the PS orders and also the SD orders and report on the orders, costs and all create a common report.
Also, this report needs to have the customer information too.
Any help on this would be really appreciated.
Thanks,
Vin

Manga,
The datasources are:
1. 0CO_OM_NWA_1
2. 0CO_OM_NWA_2
3. 0CO_OM_WBS_1
4. 0CO_OM_WBS_3
I have managed to get the customer data loaded based on the project name in the WBS.
Now the only challenge is to get the sales order loaded onto the same cube with the shipping and billing information to reflect the revenue and costs.
Thanks,
Vinay

Reg. the Business Service and Business System(Integration Directory).

Hi,
I have a small doubt reg. the Business Service and Business System. When do we need to go for creating a Business Service AND a Business System? I want to know the difference b/w them and the usage of a Business Service as compared to a Business System. Generally I create Business Systems in my configuration scinerioes. Could anybody pl. clarify on this?
Regards,
Murthy

Murthy,
It's been already discussed so many times, Juz give a search option in the thread, you will find a lot.
Anyhow,Please refer the below threads.
Re: Business Service <--> Business System
Business service or Business system??
Business Service and Business system
Diff b/w Business service & Business System?
Business Service / Business System
business system and business service
Best regards,
raj.

I'm running V10.6.8 and the system is not recognizing a San Disc adapter that I plug into the side of the keyboard. This always worked in the past. Whats changed?

I'm running V10.6.8 and the system is not recognizing the presence of a San Disc (SDHC) adapter that I plug into the left side of the keyboard. This always worked in the past. Whats changed? I can't upload my images to a folder.

Another item I'd found when getting an SD card for an older camera was the lack of backward support from the SD card if it was too new, while a newer camera can sometimes use an older SD card at a slower read-write speed. There are limits and ceilings on what kind of card works with old/new stuff.
So I ended up taking a nice SD card back to one store and had to settle on a 'walmart kinda dubious kingston two pack a cure' for the older Panasonic Lumix. Smaller capacity but seems to work OK for the era. I don't trust kingston with macs, but this 10 y/o Lumix seems to not care about that.
Hopefully you can obtain the correct cards, because some stores only sell parts for their inventory of cameras. And some adapters are limited too.
Depending on what I'm doing with the card and the camera it goes with, I attach the camera to the computer and not just the card in a reader. That way I can file items inside the camera SD card in a way the camera won't overwrite them. Later when I save everything from the card into an external hard disk drive, all my filed folders of images by date (I created in the SD) appear in order, in the later archive. Easier too, when I burn to DVD or CD media, to create yet another archive away from the computer or the camera.
Good luck & happy computing!

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Can you use Windows in a VM instead of natively?
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Always have backups of your system, clone that you can boot from.
Boot Camp 3.0 was the last supported. You don't need OEM 10.4.6 DVD and your system with EFI and SMC updates (Aug/Sept 2007) may not like it.
32-bit version of Windows on EFI-32 will only get 1.9GB RAM.
Installing 64-bit Windows 7 is a bit harder. Vista pre-SP1 64-bit was the best match for install on my 1,1 and that was 2006-2007.
The new owner needs to deal with this, not you. And really they are better off with a $400 PC instead. Or use a VM.
the owner should put in a new SSD for the system and $44 buys 4 x 2GB RAM. Together it will run just fine. 500GB SSD now $250 / $135 250GB. Biggest issue is a video card on these.
The grey screen - you upgraded the graphic card perhaps.
Unplug everything. Hit power for 5-10 seconds. Reconnect cables for mouse/kb and power, and monitor. You just reset SMC. Yes there is a small button - pull drive #4 and any controller in top slot #4 to see the SMC motherboard reset button but you don't need to.
Any PCIe cards can also play a role and factor into XP or Windows not working.

How to Transport Factory Calender to QTY and PRS systems

Hi All,
I had done a small change to Holiday calender in SCAL. I have read that it's not suggestive to transport it. Can any one let me know the procedure to transport the change to QTY and PRD systems.
The transport button is greyed out .
Best Regards,
Sri

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356483 : Customizing: Current settings in the test system.
077430 : Customizing: Current settings .
328916 : Cust Changes despite "System cannot be changed" setting
Can any one provide an input on the procedure to move a factory calender - Individual entry..
Thanks in advance
Sri

Fast, small-byte reads and writes.

I am trying to communicate with a third-party counter using a 1 byte "start" command followed by reading a 4 byte number. I would like to perform this read/write pair as fast as possible as I will be using count-times on the order of microseconds repeated millions of times. Our first attempt used USB but the latency in the bus was way too slow at 1ms. We spent more time waiting than counting. We are currently considering GPIB since the latency should be only 30 microseconds but we're concerned that the overhead from labview will prevent us from reading and writing that fast. Another idea we had was to use digital I/O channels to create our own parallel port to by-pass the USB bus. Can anyone comment on a good solution for low-latency small-byte reads and writes from labview? What type of hardware is recommended and can labview support programmatic reads-writes on the order of microseconds? Thanks!

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Program to Auto Import transports to quality and production systems

Hi Experts
Do anyone have a program that imports transport requests automatically into quality and production systems from development? I know there is a procedure to import all into QA that can be set in TMS.
But I am looking for a program instead that could auto import into quality and subsequently to production.
Thanks,
Ravali

You need to set the autoimport job in Q whichh will bring all the transport from Dev when they are released. For autoimport go to STMS --> import queue of your Q system -->Start import with the small truck sign and it will ask you to select the time (run it every 15 mins or so) --> start the job
Production you never setup an autoimport, there might be some transports which you may not want to send to prod, only the approved transport will go to prod. Hope this helps

DMM and Show and Share: System Requirement

Hi
I want to install DMM and SnS for a test environement (vmware), but i can't find the system requirements for both servers, i know that is a Hardware only Server supported and a preinstalled plateforme.

Hi Youssef;
Maybe this will help;
There is a DMS sub-forum here
https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/netpro/collaboration-voice-video/digital-media-system?view=discussions
Cisco Digital Media Manager 5.4 Virtual Machine
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/video/ps9339/ps6681/data_sheet_C78-722975.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/video/digital_media_systems/5_x/5_4/dmm/vm/dmm54x_vm.html
Cisco Show and Share
System Requirements
Cisco Show and Share is available for purchase on two different supporting server appliances. All of the required operating system software, required configuration, and Cisco Show and Share applications are shipped to customers preinstalled on the server appliance they choose. Cisco Show and Share is not available for purchase as a standalone application.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/video/ps9339/ps6681/data_sheet_c78-565776_ps6682_Products_Data_Sheet.html
Cheers!
Rob
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Availability of Win 10 Drivers for *Current* and *New* Systems

I was wondering if there is any timeframe for posting Windows 10 drives for *Current* and *New* Systems. I notice that there are only like 3 drivers posted so far for the X360 laptops. Even the brand new models which come with Windows 10 preinstalled still have only a smattering of drivers posted. Obviously the drivers exist since the system ships with them installed, why can't they be posted for download? I can understand driver availability taking some time for systems that didn't ship with Win 10, but for those systems that ship with Win 10 already loaded shouldn't those drivers be available to your customers on the the very first day of product shipment? In case you are wondering why it matters if it comes preinstalled already, it's because I plan on doing new, clean install of Win 10 Professional. Your systems are shipping with the Home edition. I have an X360 that is still being sold and shipping with 8.1. I would walk into Best Buy today and buy another one that comes with Windows 10, but won't do that until drivers are available so I can do a clean install. Thanks.

digitaldocent wrote:
After replacing a failed internal hard drive on my HP Pavillion dv2500 laptop, I installed a new Win 7 operating system rather than the Vista software that came on the computer. After installing Windows 7 using a CD/DVD and a few other CD/DVD-based programs, my CD/DVD is no longer working. It's now missing the device driver. Searching HP Laptop Drivers, I find a replacement driver for all operating systems except for Win7!
??? >Where can I find updated/compatible Win7 drivers for my notebook to restore all of it's original features?
??? >Can I install the Vista64 drivers for the original device drivers that came with the Vista operating system if Win 7 drivers are not available?
NVidia provided updated drivers for the graphics chip that installed fine.
Model: HP Multimedia Pavillion dv2500
Running 4 Gb of ram, new 500GB internal HD (500GB external), Win 7 32 bit operating system
Thanks,
John

Connection Between SAP GTS and Legacy systems

Hi GTS Experts,
Could you please let me know how to connect between SAP GTS and Legacy systems.
This is for transfer of Customers, Vendors,Materials(Products in GTS),Transaction Data.
Could you please provide any documentation on this and is it PI team will do or functional guy.
One more question:
Customer created a sales order with sold to and ship to(both contains same address) in legacy system.
Then it will be sent to SPL screening in GTS.
Now he will change ship to address and this should not be passed to SPL screening-- how to do this.
Regards,
Murali

Hi Murali,
Apart from what Dave mentioned as above, although there is no such document available apart from SAP Standard content document but its something that is very standard to other modules as well.
Actually, you need to have a middle ware like SAP PI or any non SAP Product between SAP and Non SAP Legacy system. Also, mapping should be defined well in advance in this. Then it will also involve the EDI at the SAP GTS system end and Web skills( or applicale connection skills) at the Legacy system end to ensure appropriate mapping and interchange of realistic data.
Here, I would like to know if your legacy system had already some SAP system connected to it?.
Regards,
Aman

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