Understanding and Coding for OM Inheritance: Part 2 – Coding

When we last left our heroes, they were blazing a trail of understanding through the vastness space that we call organizational management (uggg….really need to work on that opener). Anyways….if you read part 1 of this (Understanding and Coding for OM Inheritance: Part 1 – Basics ), then you should now […]

Understanding and Coding for OM Inheritance: Part 1 – Basics

Like many “techy” folks….developers….coders….what have you…my experience with Organizational Management (OM) configuration was limited at best in my early ESS/MSS and “HR ABAPper” (as I hated it to be called!) days. In most all cases, I came in after the fact once the “functional” person(s) had set up the “org […]

Profit center / cost center hierarchy in standard SAP table

General background – As we know, profit center / cost center hierarchy are maintained in sets in SAP. In order to view the profit / cost centers within a hierarchy, we need to go to the setleaf / setheader tables. However there is no complete view of a hierarchy in […]

Carry forward overtime to next month –(Pay 26th to 25th)

1. Objective I hope this article gives you an idea how to use processing types in time management to flag your records n time evaluation in order to control their loading in payroll. 2. How can use this method Almost companies in my country are running payroll in monthly period […]

SAP HRM structure and configuration

This document will help you to understand HRM structure and  and configuration . HRM enables us to set up organizational hierarchies and employee relationships and then we can administer the following area. 1. Personnel administrator 2. Time administrator 3. Payroll administrator Allocation of employees to the structures is the first step for entering […]

Configuration steps -Enterprise structure and Personnel Structure

Overview The purpose of this topic is to explain the two main structures in SAP Personnel Administration – the Enterprise Structure and the Personnel Structure. The need to prudently design these structures cannot be overstated. Although these structures are configured in Personnel Administration, they directly control features across the gamut of Human Capital Management in areas […]

FTP file transfer in Background

FTP file transfer in Background:   1)      Creating RFC Destination for FTP Run program: RSFTP005. The RFC destinations SAPFTP and SAPFTPA will be created automatically. a)      SAPFTP (for local system) b)      SAPFTPA (for running in Application server)(This is used for file transfer in background.   2)      Code sample for developing FTP programs can be got from report program   […]

Script Recording & Playback for Dummies

This document will explain how to automate the execution of steps in SAP using the Script Recording and Playback. You should be able to make your own script by following this document. It is not necessary to have programming knowledge. You can use Script to automate business transactions, to automate […]

SAP GUI Script Recording & Playback for mass password resets

This document will explain how to automate the SAP User-id password resets using the Script Recording and Playback. You can able to make the script on your own by following this document and programming knowledge is not required. Script recording Following screenshots show how to record and create the script […]

Use of * in offset processing

Generally when we try to access a string greater than its length it gives  dump. Example 1: REPORT y_offset_process. DATA: w_char TYPE c, w_string TYPE string. w_string = sy-abcde. w_char = w_string+26(1).  When you execute this program you get a dump.This is due to w_string is length of 26 and you […]