Optimize Your SAP ERP Financials Implementation

Shivesh Sharma (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

676 Seiten

2008
SAP Press (Verlag)
978-1-59229-160-1 (ISBN)

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All successful organizations need to continuously improve operational efficiency and achieve faster closes. Using this book you'll learn how to maximize your SAP ERP Financials implementation by leveraging value-added activities and a process-driven approach. You'll find detailed, expert instruction on what needs to be done after an SAP ERP Financials implementation is complete - when the real work begins! Learn how to minimize time spent on burdensome reconciliation activities and focus on the strategic aspects. Plus, discover how to meet a variety of challenges, including enterprise structure definition, complex reporting requirements, and more. Using real-world examples and best practices, you'll also find out how to analyze and deploy the most appropriate tools and methodologies to best suit the needs of your organization. The business-process perspective and real-world focus make this a practical, invaluable resource for anyone who needs to get the very most out of their SAP ERP Financials implementation.

Shivesh Sharma has worked in the SAP Financials area for six years, for companies such as IBM, CSC, and Fujitsu Consulting. His areas of expertise include business process design, FI-AP, GL. AR, Banking, Asset Management, Funds Management, and Special Purpose Ledger.

1 ... Implementing SAP ERP ... 29 ... 1.1 ... Reasons for Implementing SAP ERP ... 29 ... 1.2 ... SAP ERP Implementation Roadmap ... 30 ... 1.3 ... Types of SAP Implementations ... 38 ... 1.4 ... SAP Implementation Methodologies ... 42 ... 1.5 ... SAP Implementation Team Structure ... 48 ... 1.6 ... Role of SAP ERP Financials Consultants in an SAP ERP Implementation ... 50 ... 1.7 ... Big Bang Versus Phased Implementation Approach ... 52 ... 1.8 ... Managing Global Rollouts and Local Requirements ... 56 ... 1.9 ... Summary ... 59 2 ... The SAP ERP Financials Solution ... 61 ... 2.1 ... Key Requirements for the Financials ERP Solution ... 61 ... 2.2 ... SAP ERP Financials Direction: A Historical Perspective ... 65 ... 2.3 ... SAP ERP Financials: A Snapshot View ... 67 ... 2.4 ... Financial Supply Chain Management ... 74 ... 2.5 ... Corporate Governance ... 76 ... 2.6 ... Summary ... 78 3 ... Choosing the Optimal Enterprise Structure ... 79 ... 3.1 ... Introduction to Organizational Entities ... 80 ... 3.2 ... Financial Enterprise Structure Organizational Entities ... 84 ... 3.3 ... Controlling Organizational Entities ... 97 ... 3.4 ... Logistics Organizational Entities ... 100 ... 3.5 ... Relationship Between Financial and Logistics Entities ... 105 ... 3.6 ... Purchasing Organizational Entities ... 107 ... 3.7 ... Sales and Distribution Organizational Entities ... 108 ... 3.8 ... Logistics Execution Organizational Entities ... 115 ... 3.9 ... Plant Maintenance Organizational Entities ... 119 ... 3.10 ... Human Resources Organizational Entities ... 121 ... 3.11 ... Assignment of Organizational Entities ... 125 ... 3.12 ... Key Financial Organizational Mapping Decisions and Best Practices ... 146 ... 3.13 ... Key Nonfi nancial Entity Decisions that Impact Financials ... 152 ... 3.14 ... Summary ... 154 4 ... Integrated Business Process View of SAP ERP Financials ... 155 ... 4.1 ... Purchase Requisition to Check Writing: Procurement to Payment ... 156 ... 4.2 ... Sales Order to Cash Application Process ... 170 ... 4.3 ... Project Systems (PS-FI Integration) ... 176 ... 4.4 ... Managing Plant Maintenance ... 185 ... 4.5 ... Managing Quality Management Processes ... 195 ... 4.6 ... Managing Payroll Human Resources-Financials (HR-FI) Integration ... 199 ... 4.7 ... Managing Transportation and Shipment Costs ... 206 ... 4.8 ... Summary ... 213 5 ... Optimizing Financial Business Processes: Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable ... 215 ... 5.1 ... Vendor Master ... 216 ... 5.2 ... Customer Master Data ... 218 ... 5.3 ... Configuring the Vendor Master and Customer Master ... 222 ... 5.4 ... Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable Business Transactions: Key Concepts and Global Settings ... 233 ... 5.5 ... Downpayments ... 244 ... 5.6 ... Processing Invoices in Accounts Payable and Accounts ... 5.7 ... Processing Outgoing Payments ... 258 ... 5.8 ... Interest Calculation ... 273 ... 5.9 ... Dunning ... 292 ... 5.10 ... Credit Management ... 302 ... 5.11 ... Integration ... 306 ... 5.12 ... Business Trends in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable ... 308 ... 5.13 ... Summary ... 310 6 ... Optimizing Financial Business Processes: Bank Accounting Implementation ... 311 ... 6.1 ... Bank Accounting: Introduction ... 312 ... 6.2 ... Master Data ... 313 ... 6.3 ... Check Deposit ... 316 ... 6.4 ... Payment Transactions ... 324 ... 6.5 ... Cash Journal ... 337 ... 6.6 ... Summary ... 344 7 ... Optimizing Financial Business Processes for Asset Accounting ... 345 ... 7.1 ... Asset Organization Elements and Structure ... 345 ... 7.2 ... Asset Master ... 348 ... 7.3 ... Asset Class ... 360 ... 7.4 ... Business Transactions ... 361 ... 7.5 ... Periodic Processing in Asset Accounting ... 371 ... 7.6 ... Confi guring Business Transactions in Asset Accounting ... 377 ... 7.7 ... Integrating Asset Accounting with the General Ledger... 378 ... 7.8 ... Valuation ... 388 ... 7.9 ... Depreciation ... 398 ... 7.10 ... Confi guring Asset Accounting Business Transactions ... 410 ... 7.11 ... Legacy Data Transfer ... 426 ... 7.12 ... Summary ... 433 8 ... Financial Accounting Global Settings ... 435 ... 8.1 ... Financial Accounting Global Settings: Company Code ... 437 ... 8.2 ... Financial Accounting Global Settings: Ledger ... 443 ... 8.3 ... Summary ... 467 9 ... Improving General Ledger Management ... 469 ... 9.1 ... General Ledger Accounting: Introduction ... 470 ... 9.2 ... General Ledger Accounting: Master Data ... 472 ... 9.3 ... Confi guration of General Ledger Master Data ... 484 ... 9.4 ... The New General Ledger ... 491 ... 9.5 ... Business Transactions: General Ledger ... 493 ... 9.6 ... Confi guring Business Transactions: General Ledger ... 506 ... 9.7 ... Integration with General Ledger ... 529 ... 9.8 ... Preparation of Productive Start ... 538 ... 9.9 ... Summary ... 546 10 ... Achieving Faster Closes ... 547 ... 10.1 ... Month-End Closing Checklist ... 548 ... 10.2 ... The Closing Cockpit ... 551 ... 10.3 ... Closing Processes ... 559 ... 10.4 ... Summary ... 578 11 ... Special Purpose Ledger ... 579 ... 11.1 ... Special Purpose Ledger: An Introduction ... 581 ... 11.2 ... Basic Settings ... 582 ... 11.3 ... Installing the Special Purpose Ledger ... 583 ... 11.4 ... Business Transactions ... 595 ... 11.5 ... Periodic Processing ... 599 ... 11.6 ... Summary ... 609 12 ... SAP Enterprise Consolidation ... 611 ... 12.1 ... SAP Enterprise Consolidation: An Introduction ... 611 ... 12.2 ... Master Data ... 613 ... 12.3 ... Dimension ... 614 ... 12.4 ... Consolidation Versions ... 616 ... 12.5 ... Check Currencies and Define Ledger ... 619 ... 12.6 ... Define Organization Units and Groups ... 621 ... 12.7 ... Define Financial Statement Items ... 627 ... 12.8 ... Define Sets ... 630 ... 12.9 ... Define Characteristics ... 631 ... 12.10 ... Defi ne Characteristic Hierarchies ... 631 ... 12.11 ... Data Collection ... 632 ... 12.12 ... Data Monitor and Consolidation Monitor ... 633 ... 12.13 ... Currency Translation ... 635 ... 12.14 ... Balance Carryforward ... 643 ... 12.15 ... Consolidation Business Transaction Postings ... 645 ... 12.16 ... Summary ... 649 13 ... Concluding Remarks ... 651 ... 13.1 ... What You Learned in This Book ... 652 ... 13.2 ... Going Forward ... 653 Appendix ... 655 A Glossary ... 655 B Bibliography ... 661 C About the Author ... 663 Index ... 665

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2008
Reihe/Serie	SAP Press
Verlagsort	Maryland
Sprache	englisch
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► SAP
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	1-59229-160-0 / 1592291600
ISBN-13	978-1-59229-160-1 / 9781592291601
Zustand	Neuware