Expert Tips To Unleash The Full Potential Of Sap Controlling

This book is written for SAP Controlling (CO) professionals who want to learn expert tips to optimize their system performance for configuration, reconciliation, and reporting. Using a fictional chocolate manufacturing case study, each tip provides detailed information on aspects of the functionality, how it can help you, why you should use it, and how to use it including SAP configuration steps. Obtain best practices for optimizing cost allocation methods, expediting material ledger close, and utilizing cost center overhead charges. Troubleshoot product costing messages and find out how to prevent GL account overrides during inventory posting transactions. Walk through best practices for effectively maintaining master data and standard costing methods. By using an integrated practical example and screenshots, the author informs readers on how to get the most out of their SAP ERP system. - Optimize SAP ERP Controlling configuration, reconciliation, and reporting - Transaction processing tips to ensure accurate data capture - Instructions for avoiding common month-end close pain points - Reporting and reconciliation best practices

This book is written for SAP Controlling (CO) professionals who want to learn expert tips to optimize their system performance for configuration, reconciliation, and reporting. Using a fictional chocolate manufacturing case study, each tip provides detailed information on aspects of the functionality, how it can help you, why you should use it, and how to use it including SAP configuration steps. Obtain best practices for optimizing cost allocation methods, expediting material ledger close, and utilizing cost center overhead charges. Troubleshoot product costing messages and find out how to prevent GL account overrides during inventory posting transactions. Walk through best practices for effectively maintaining master data and standard costing methods. By using an integrated practical example and screenshots, the author informs readers on how to get the most out of their SAP ERP system. - Optimize SAP ERP Controlling configuration, reconciliation, and reporting - Transaction processing tips to ensure accurate data capture - Instructions for avoiding common month-end close pain points - Reporting and reconciliation best practices

This SAP Controlling (CO) book walks readers through the fundamentals of internal orders in SAP ERP as cost objects, as well as the benefits of period settlement. Dive into master data configuration for creating orders types and status management and learn how to create a master record. Get step-by-step guidance on how to do daily postings in internal orders with and without revenue and learn how to use commitments. Obtain expert advice on period-end close, including the settlement profile, allocation structure, source structure, and results analysis. Find out what your SAP reporting options are and learn how to leverage summarization hierarchies in SAP CO. By using practical examples, and SAP screenshots, the author brings business users new to internal orders up to speed on the fundamentals. Experienced SAP users will benefit from the expert tips and configuration requirements. - Concepts and daily postings to internal orders - Master data configuration - Streamlining period-end close activities - Reporting options and summarization hierarchies in SAP CO

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to SAP ERP Controlling (CO). You will learn the basic fundamentals of the organizational structure, master data, and functions of SAP Controlling, including overhead controlling, product costing, month-end closing, and reporting. If you would like to understand the basic fundamentals of SAP Controlling, with examples based on a case study approach, this book is for you! Using a fictional chocolate manufacturing company case study, you will learn fundamentals based on several day-in-the-life scenarios of various key functions such as cost planning, production controlling, actual costing, and information systems. Get detailed information on how SAP CO integrates with other SAP modules and obtain insight into the different functional areas typically used in manufacturing organizations. Dive into SAP ERP master data elements and get tips on how to maintain consistent and accurate data. Review the various planning methods available and get an overview of cost center planning, including overhead planning and labor cost planning. Understand how SAP Material Ledger can be used to accurately determine costs. Identify how actual costs are booked and absorbed. By using a detailed case study, practical examples, tips, and screenshots the author brings readers new to SAP CO quickly up to speed on the fundamentals. - Cost center and product cost planning, actual cost flow - Best practices for cost absorption using Product Cost Controlling - Month-end closing activities in SAP Controlling - Examples and screenshots based on a case study approach

Provides 100 little-known time-saving tips and workarounds for SAP Controlling users, super-users, and consultants Features a practical, highly-visual, easy-to-use 2-page spread for each topic area Includes access to a companion e-book or online updates that will be kept current with new tips contributed by read-ers Have you ever spent days trying to figure out how to generate a report in SAP ERP Financials only to find out you just needed to click a few buttons. If so, you ll be delighted with this book it unlocks the secrets of an SAP Controlling guru for use by everyone. It provides users and super-users with 100 tips and workarounds you can use to increase productivity, save time, and improve the ease-of-use for your SAP system. The tips have been carefully selected to provide a collection of the best, most useful, and rarest information. And with these tips, your SAP user experience will be friendlier and easier, and you may even hear a few comments like I had no idea you could do that that way! or I wish I had known how to do that a long time ago!

SAP PRESS equips you with 110 Things that unlock the secrets of working with the Controlling component in SAP! Get ready to add to your CO arsenal, and replace some cumbersome techniques youve been using for cost object controlling, profit center accounting, profitability analysis, and more. This second edition comes with an additional 10 bonus tips. Whether you think you know it all, or know that you don't, this book gives you expert tips to get there.

Because of its complex integration, Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC) is often regarded as the most challenging module in SAP ERP. In this book, you will learn the most important concepts, business processes, and configuration settings. By concentrating only on the essentials, this book will quickly enable you to use it as a supplementary reference guide for implementing or supporting SAP CO-PC. Screenshots of transactions and configuration are included to illustrate written content. This book also dives into CO-PC integration details with other modules and tips on how to properly configure and implement a highly integrated sub-module. This complete and simplified guide to configuration and business processes for SAP Product Costing covers: * Introduction to Value Flows in SAP Controlling * Step-by-Step Examples * Configuration for Product Costing * Detailed Month End Closing Processes