SAP Batch Determination made easy

Published on September 5th, 2008Comments (1)

Recently a colleague encountered the following problem:
His customer tracks perishable products that are bought / inventory managed / sold using the SAP functionality Batch Management (LO-BM). The products have a shelf life and therefore a “Use by/Expiration” date. His problem was that he was able to correctly update the characteristic “Expiration date” of the [...]

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Integration du processus Achat d’immobilisations et creation d’equipements

Published on June 13th, 2007Comments (2)

Je suis toujours surpris de voir que bien des clients ne savent pas qu’il est dans SAP, possible d’optimiser le processus d’achats d’equipements qui doivent par la suite etre immobilises. En general ce processus releve de la responsabilite de plusieurs services au sein d’un societe. Dans sa forme la plus complexe on peut imaginer le [...]

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Re-writing SAP with PHP (part 1.5)

Published on May 22nd, 2006Comments (4)

If things always went to plan, I guess I would now be writing part 2 and not 1.5! The truth is, I’ve had so many ideas lately that I just had to test them out and so this is how 1.5 came to be. In this post I’m going to show you how I used [...]

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Re-writing SAP with PHP (part 1)

Published on May 13th, 2006Comments (10)

Don’t let the title fool you, I’m not quite there yet. I’ve already written a few posts that dealt with integrating SAP and PHP (which you can find here and here to get you started), but I thought it was time to take it to another level. So what I’ve done here is to try [...]

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Update to SAPRfc - MATERIAL_GETLIST

Published on April 28th, 2006Comments (3)

This is just a quick update to my previous post in which I dealt with using the BAPI (Business Programming Application Interface) BAPI_MATERIAL_GETLIST. This update does not change - greatly - the code that makes the rfc (remote function call) call itself. It now gives you the possibility to fill in a form where you [...]

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SAPRfc - MATERIAL_GETLIST in browser

Published on February 23rd, 2006Comments (6)

This post deals with using PHP to communicate with SAP, so you’ll need to have acces to a SAP system if you want to reproduce this.
All-right, some time ago I wrote a post in which I said that I wanted to use a BAPI (or other) to retrieve a list of material numbers from a [...]

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SAPRfc - stock/requirements list in browser

Published on January 9th, 2006Comments (15)

About 4 months ago I was trying out various things with SAPRrfc. To be more precise I was trying to mimick the the transaction code that most consultant refer to by its transaction code as opposed to the name of it. Yes (this is an easy one if you are an LO consultant) I’m talking [...]

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Where is that number range?

Published on January 7th, 2006Comments (2)

Have you ever had that problem where you needed to customize a number range in SAP but just did not know where you had to do it in the IMG? Worse still, you are running a transaction and you get an error message because there is no number range for object RF_BELEG? RF what? That’s [...]

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Changing standard SAP field descriptions

Published on September 1st, 2005Comments (8)

Sometimes you absolutely need a couple of fields to input all your information, so you end up using an unused field. What happens if the field description does not match, not even closely the information you put in it?
Well you have several choices:
- You could live with it.
- You could create your own data dictionary [...]

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PHP & SAP : Experimenting with SAPRfc

Published on July 30th, 2005Comments (8)

A couple of years ago I started experimenting with the SAPRfc library but a busy schedule prevented me from doing anything more then execute the demo script.
So, a couple of years down the road, I last week again installed the SAPRfc library on my new work PC (running XP Pro). Although I have been [...]

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SAP’s secret : Getafix

Published on July 24th, 2005Comments (1)

This is a very neat easter egg that I came across trying to find the picture for one icon. When I show this to people, they are usually surprised to see that a ‘touch of humour’ has slipped inside SAP. If you want to see what I mean follow these steps:
Goto transaction SMW0 (That’ll [...]

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Uploading/downloading files - made easy!

Published on July 6th, 2005Comments (0)

There are many transactions and ways that will help you perform the task of uploading or downloading a file to the SAP server. The easiest and quickest I have found is the use of the following transactions:
Transaction CG3Z to upload a file.

Transaction CG3Y to download a file.

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Nice(r) table viewing and data manipulation

Published on July 4th, 2005Comments (0)

I’m always amazed to see the number of people that have not heard of the transaction SE16N. I can’t remember which version of SAP brought that transaction but I’ve used it ever since I discovered it. Data manipulation is greatly enhanced and you can use all the standard ALV functionnalities.

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Upload/download - paths made easy!

Published on July 1st, 2005Comments (0)

In SAP, if you only sometimes have to do data downloads, I suppose that it’s not going to bother you that the proposed path is not where you want to store your file. You’ll just select another place to store your file.
However, if you have to do this on a regular basis it [...]

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