SAP FICO Step by Step Configuration E-Book

SAP FICO / PS Configuration Material

GET COMPLETE SET of step-by-step SAP FICO (ECC 6.0) Configuration Material at very reasonable cost.

SAP FICO Complete Step-by-Step configuration notes contains - Over 1500 pages

 GL Configuration
 New Ledger Configuration
 Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable (ARAP) Configuration
 Dunning Accounts Configuration
 Banking Configuration
 Cash Management Configuration (CM)
 Funds Management Configuration (FM)
 Cost Center Accounting Configuration (CCA)
 Product Costing Configuration (PC)
 Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) Configuration
 Profit Center Accounting (PCA) Configuration
 Asset Accounting Configuration (AA)
 Internal Order Configuration (IO)
 Investment Management Configuration (IM)
 Material Ledger Configuration (ML)

 

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Lots of Educational Materials explaining the concepts.

Written by SAP Senior Consultant with many years of SAP Project implementation experience.

 

FI Configuration covers:-

 

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SAP FICO Configuration Material

GET COMPLETE SET of SAP FICO / PS (ECC 6.0) Configuration Material at very reasonable cost. Other modules also in the making.

Includes Power point presentations and step by step end-to-end Configuration.

Lots of Educational Materials explaining the concepts.

Written by SAP Senior Consultant with many years of SAP Project implementation experience.

Cost is very nominal and affordable - US$100 per Functional Module only - Just cost of a Meal!!!
Complete OIL&GAS Business Process available.

FI Configuration covers:-

• GL Configuration

• AR/AP Configuration
• BANK Configuration
• CCA Configuration
• Product Costing
• Profitability Analysis (PA)
• PCA Configuration
• Asset Accounting
• Cash Management
• Financial Statement Version (FSV)
• FI Integration with other Modules

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SAP TSW Scheduling

TSW - Scheduling

Planning defines what should or could be done within any supply chain management situation, scheduling is the actual process of managing the necessary activities to enable the ultimate execution of actions and events as far as possible within the realms of the plan.

In terms of bulk oil scheduling, the nomination process is the key scheduling and communication forum to both notify to and make requests from supply chain partners. Supply chain partners could represent trading partners such as customers and suppliers, but equally service partners such as carriers and inspectors.

In essence the scheduler uses the rundown, the planning proposals, the supply chain model and their own specialized decision making abilities to create such nominations containing schedules that will be executed within the real world.

During the course of the scheduling process, which is ongoing for the entire life cycle of any movement at least up until physical completion, scheduled items and thus nominations can be changed for any number of reasons – inventory issues, vessel availabilities, slippages on pipelines, trading partners changing their requests, production shutdowns etc.

The TSW Rundown, Worklist and Nomination together highlight the need for the scheduler to take action and then support the decision making process, as well as the ability to capture the outcomes of those decisions within the nomination itself.

Each schedule line on a nomination describes a single movement activity, such as a load / injection or a discharge. As each schedule line can also relate to a business transaction with a different trading partner to every other schedule line, the later handling during execution is controlled from the schedule via a number of “scenario differentiators”, the main one of which is customizable to allow all possibilities to be covered.

This set of scenario differentiators allow a wide range of customizable and automated SAP R/3 document generation routines to be triggered due to the actualization of a schedule line caused by a valid ticketing (c.f.) posting.

This then provides support to handle sales processes, either triggered from referenced contracts or orders (in the former case the call-off from the contract is part of the automated process), purchase processes similarly from contracts or orders, and stock transfer processes typically for replenishment purposes (where, depending on set-up, the document within R/3 to handle the transfer can be automatically generated too).

In all cases, it is possible to define the document generation routine to use any referenced document, the schedule line and the ticket posting to generate complete document flows up to and including goods movement postings, with the option to include TD shipments for those movements where transport was a consideration (as opposed to book transfers where transport is not relevant) – and this is all automated into a background process.

SAP TSW - Nomination

TSW - Nomination

The nomination transaction and screen supports three main processes:

1. Creation and maintenance of logical collections of scheduled movements as they relate to a carrier nomination process.
2. Communication and tracking of status of outputs to carriers and their responses.
3. Providing sufficient information to subsequent R/3 processes to support the automatic execution routines.

Each nomination and the schedule lines within it are tracked using statuses that are used both to generate alerts to the scheduler as well as control the execution of subsequent steps.

For example, the schedule lines are in status “Planned” whilst they remain internal to the oil company, then become “Scheduled” once the nomination that contains them has been transmitted to the carrier.

The updating of the schedule lines to status “Confirmed” can be achieved via an inbound interface (Inbound nomination BAPI), or manually based upon a paper or verbal update from the carrier, or by a so-called “quick confirm” function, where scheduling (sending) and confirmation occurs in one step.

Once confirmation has been achieved, the nomination schedule items are then enabled for execution (i.e. actualization via the ticket process).

Throughout the scheduling and nomination process, events can be defined and updated for each schedule line to track progress (e.g. planned loading time, actual loading time etc).

Other types of events can be also defined, for example to record references to other service partner and associated contracts (e.g. inspectors) as well as free-form text entries.

Recent enhancements to the TSW nomination include a new screen layout, enabling more schedule information to be visible at one time, new interface links to APO the links to contracts , and functions to allow speedy confirmation status updates at time of scheduling.

SAP TSW Masters

TSW Masters

TSW Master consists of :

1. Locations, such as regions, terminals, bulk plants, refineries and other such facilities where products are typically stored;
2. Transport systems, which may represent physical means of transportation such as pipelines or more logical ones such as marine routes; and
3. Partners, effectively a means of identifying the actual business partners who are active throughout the supply network, whatever their role may be in any given circumstance (roles include receiver, supplier, carrier, shipper, inspector etc).

All of the above are fully integrated with standard SAP R/3 objects such as customers, vendors and plants, and thus complete consistency is maintained throughout the whole process cycle from planning to settlement.

SAP TSW introduction

SAP Trader’s and Scheduler’s Workbench (T.S.W) is used to monitor current and future supply chain activity, including all trading, inventory, and scheduled movements.

1- TSW helps you manage the supply, demand, and transportation requirements in the midstream (crude, feedstocks, and gas transmission) and primary distribution (refined products) sectors for all bulk transports. It also helps you manage them throughout the complete process life cycle – from deal to cash, including planning, scheduling, and execution.

2- TSW integrates market demand information, planned and nominated bulk movements, production data, consumption forecasts, and replenishment forecasts. Open interfaces allow you to communicate nominations and confirmations in both directions with external partners, such as pipeline operators and customers.

3- SAP TSW incorporates a set of tools that work together and use the same master data.

4- Technically part of the SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio, TSW is completely integrated with the mySAP ERP solution and the SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) component. This integration means your planning, scheduling, and execution processes all run in the same landscape, guaranteeing data reliability, real-time data availability, data transparency, and the absence of data redundancy.

5- With TSW as a communication platform for you and your business partners, you create a foundation for collaboration all along the supply chain. Many different transaction screens and functions enable schedulers and others involved in supply chain operations to view and manage all relevant activities. They can also look ahead to build plans for the future and look back into the past to analyze history. This provides key decision-support capabilities for managing future operations.

6- TSW touches all aspects of the scheduler’s workflow, and it provides various integration and interface points to communicate with both internal and external systems and parties. All tools – from nomination to scheduling to freight contracts and ticketing – are integrated with one another, so you only have to enter data once. Because of the intuitive configuration of SAP Trader’s and Scheduler’s Workbench and its master data settings, some data does not have to be entered at all because it can be inferred by the software. In addition, all information is fully transparent and made available in numerous formats across the full range of scheduling and shipping transactions.

SAP FICO Configuration Material

GET COMPLETE SET of SAP FICO / PS (ECC 6.0) Configuration Material at very reasonable cost.
Includes Power point presentations and step by step end-to-end Configuration.
Lots of Educational Materials explaining the concepts.
Written by SAP Senior Consultant with many years of SAP Project implementation experience.
Cost is very nominal and affordable - US$100 (for FICO) only - cost of a Meal

GL Configuration

AR/AP Configuration

BANK Configuration

CCA Configuration

Product Costing

Profitability Analysis (PA)

PCA Configuration

Asset Accounting


Cash Management

Financial Statement Version (FSV)

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SAP Cost Element Accounting fundamentals

SAP R/3 Company Code Configuration

Financial Accounting (FI) is central module in any business system. Finance Module gets postings from other modules like Materials Management (MM), Human Resource (HR), Sales and Distribution (SD) etc through integration. FI module supplies data to Costing Module (CO). All external reporting is from FI.

Most important Organizational Structure in FI is Company Code. Balance sheet is drawn on a company code. Company code is the legal entity to the external world.

Organizational structures in other modules like Purchasing Organization in MM, Plant in Logistics, and Sales Organization in SD are all assigned to Company Code.

Further Company code is assigned to Controlling area.

Company code is represented in character length and usually in numerics like -1100.

Other Organiztional structures are attached to Company Code.

Basically the first peice of configuration done in an SAP implementation is Company Code!

     

SAP FI - GL Account Clearing

GL Account Clearing Methods

There are three methods to clear Accounts with Open Items management in SAP.

1.Posting with Clearing.
Emter document line item and select line item to be cleared. System creates offsetting postings for the items to be cleared.

2. GL Account Clearing.
Select open items that balance to zeros for a GL Account.
System marks these items as cleared with corresponding document reference in assignment field.

3. Automatic Clearing
Program uses pre-defined grouping criteria for open items of GL, Vendor, Customer. If the balance of grouped items equals zero in local, foreign and parallel currency (if available) then items are markes as cleared.

SAP FI - GL Manual Account Clearing

SAP Transaction: F-03
Clears open items on a single GL code

You want to clear open items on a GL code which is open item managed and showing uncleared.

Menu Path: Accounting->Financial Accounting->General Ledger->F-03 Clear

Double click on transaction code F-03 Clear

Enter the fields 'Account' (eg. 42000), Clearing date: (eg. 31.12.2008)
Enter 'Company Code' (3000) and 'Currency' (USD)

Click on  'Process Open Items'
Items fulfilling selection criteria are displayed.

Now you have to select items you want to clear.
Double click on each of these items.
The value of the field 'Not Assigned' is 0, means they are not cleared.

You can simulate before posting.

End User Document - GL Automatic Clearing

Transaction code: F.13
Clears GL in one run.
You can define 3 fields for sort criteria (in the configuration). Eg, all documents with the same value in the field "Assignment".

Example:
GR/IR Accounts and Fright Clearing Accounts are managed open item clearing.
They have Debit / Credit transactions.
At the end of each period (month) you can match certain Debits to Credits automatically.

For this, the GL Accounts have to be marked as open item when they are created.

Follow the menu path: Accounting->Financial Accounting->Automatic Clearing->Without Specific Clearing Currency (F.13)

Double click on F.13 transaction

1. Enter the Company code, Fiscal year
2. Cleck on 'Select GL Account' Button (We want to process GL Accounts only)
Eg. GL account 191100
3. At the bottom of the screen click on 'Only Documents that can be cleared' (System will clear only documents that can be cleared as per predefined criteria (eg. same assignment number)
4. click Test Run (for test mode, by default it will be in test mode)
5. Click 'Execute' to run

Below is the screen you get

If you run it without 'Test mode', you will get a message 'Document number xxxxxx updated in compnay code: 3000'.