Setting Up Default Field Values for the Vendor and Customer Master
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingA question that I get asked a lot is “How can we get to default certain fields in the vendor or customer master?” The answer I normally give is for the users to create...
View ArticleTechnical Tips and Tricks to Get More out of Your SAP ERP Financials...
Insider Learning Network recently hosted a web forum with Paul Ovigele on technical tips and tricks to get more out of SAP ERP financials. Paul is a featured speaker at SAPinsider Financials...
View ArticleImporting and Exporting of SAP Queries between clients
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingSAP Query is a very useful tool that functional consultants and power users can use to quickly create reports by joining tables or accessing a logical database. A great...
View ArticleChanging the WIP Calculation Basis on Manufacturing Orders
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIf you use the Cost Object Controlling submodule of Product Cost Controlling then you probably calculate Work-in-Process (WIP) on a periodic basis. WIP basically takes...
View ArticleGeneral Ledger Account settings for the New Deferred Tax Program
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingDeferred tax is a requirement in certain countries, whereby the Value Added Tax (VAT) is not applied to an invoice until a certain trigger-point, which is usually at the...
View ArticleReversing CO-PA documents
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe Controlling Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) module is one that inherits most of its actual data from other modules. Transactions which are made from modules such as...
View ArticleMaking Subsequent postings to CO-PA from other Modules
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn my previous blog, titled “Reversing CO-PA Documents” I wrote about how you can cancel documents in the CO-PA module alone. This is normally needed either when you...
View ArticleUnderstanding the 'Not Distributed" and "Not Included" lines in the Material...
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingMaterial Ledger’s actual costing functionality is great tool for determining the actual cost of a material on a periodic basis. For those of you who use it, you probably...
View ArticleUsing the Value Flow monitor to analyze Material Ledger differences
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn my previous blog, I spoke about the possible causes of the “Not Distributed” and “Not Included” lines in the material ledger. A great tool that can be used to analyze...
View ArticleHow to Make Profit Center Adjustments in the New General Ledger
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingA question that has been posed to me a few times is how one makes profit center adjustments when New G/L has been activated. For example when certain postings have been...
View ArticleUsing Assessment and Distribution Cycles in the New General Ledger
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingWhen you hear the term “Assessment” or “Distribution” in SAP, you usually think of the allocations that are made in the Controlling module, typically between cost...
View ArticleLet the System Calculate your Activity Rates Automatically
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe decision to enter activity rates manually or let the system calculate them, normally varies in different organizations. Some users prefer calculating the rate...
View ArticleSetting up Automatic Activity Price Calculation
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingIn my previous blog “Let the system calculate Your Activity rates Automatically”, I discussed the options available for calculating activity rates in the system and the...
View ArticleTransporting Overhead Rates
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingProduction overhead rates can be used to calculate the cost center costs that are not reflected in the activity rates. They can be calculated on a percentage or quantity...
View ArticleValuated Goods receipt with Multiple Account Assignment
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingEnabling ‘multiple account assignment’ functionality is very useful as it enables you to split an individual line on a purchase order or purchase requisition into...
View ArticleRevamping the format of your classical reports
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingClassical reports are the rigid two-dimensional reports, which cannot be sorted, filtered, subtotaled or easily downloaded. Basically, what you see is what you get...
View ArticleConfiguring a Vendor Account for Automatic VAT Transfer Postings
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe input and output VAT taxes are set up in transaction FTXP and hold the rates that will be applied to the respective documents. The input tax code can be applied on...
View ArticleActivating Profitability Analysis for Sales Orders
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingControlling Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) allows you to analyze the profitability of your organization according to various internal and external characteristics. For...
View ArticleSetting up HST Tax for Canada
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingHarmonized Sales Tax (HST) was made effective for certain Canadian Provinces on July 1st 2010. This tax is a combination of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Provincial...
View ArticlePosting Travel Expenses Automatically to Financial Accounting
Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingThe travel management module allows you to record your travel expenses in the SAP system as “Trips”, and with the proper approval, allow them to be settled to the...
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