Harlex Guide – Loading Long Texts into SAP

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Harlex Guide to loading long texts in SAP: an overview of how long texts are structured in SAP and how they relate to data objects, and a simple introduction in how to load long texts into SAP.

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Harlex Guide – Data Migration in SAP Dealer Business Management

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An introduction to SAP DBM Data Migration with a discussion of some of the challenges faced by a SAP data migration team when a company implements SAP Dealer Business Management, and some tips from Harlex Consulting SAP data migration specialists on how you might begin to address those challenges.

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Harlex Guide – Migrating Customer Master into SAP

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A beginners' guide on how to migrate customer master data into your SAP system, written by Douglas Powrie, SAP Data Migration Specialist.

Our favoured method for loading customer master data into SAP is by using the LSMW tool with the standard program RFBIDE00 which creates a BDC session to be processed.  Some extended address data (held in table ADRC) is not found in the standard structures for this program but this is easily solved by creating a simple recording which can populate up the missing fields. This method is powerful and straightforward, and relatively easy to use for a beginner.

Another LSMW option is to use the BAPI which processes customer master IDOCs with message type DEBMAS. This option is also flexible and benefits from being based on SAP standard programs, but the IDOC processing is less transparent than the BDC and it is rather slow when processing large volumes of data.

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Harlex Guide – Migrating Material Master into SAP

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A simple guide on how to overcome the common problems in migrating Material Master into SAP, written by Keith Peel, SAP Data Migration Specialist at Harlex Consulting.

For a one-time conversion into SAP, we favour using the LSMW tool. It allows you to leverage the full power of ABAP while using standard SAP processing functions, yet it does a lot of the file management and processing work automatically. However, even within LSMW there are a number of possible methods for migrating Materials. This document will discuss loading Materials using the standard load program RMDATIND with a brief mention of other methods.

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Harlex Guide – Migrating Fixed Assets into SAP

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A user guide in how overcome the common problems in migrating fixed assets into SAP. For a one-time conversion into SAP, we favour using the LSMW tool. It allows you to leverage the full power of ABAP while using standard SAP processing functions, yet it does a lot of the file management and processing work automatically. However, even within LSMW there are a number of possible methods for migrating fixed assets. This document will discuss loading fixed assets using the standard load program RAALTD01, although two alternatives are briefly discussed below.

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Harlex Guide – Displaying Graphs in SAP Reports

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A list of SAP demo programs showing how colourful and user-friendly graphs can be displayed in SAP ABAP reports using either custom containers (object-oriented coding) or via the SAP Business Graphics GRAPH_MATRIX* functions. Running ABAP program RGRAPALL displays the list below of all the SAP graphics demo programs. Harlex Consulting have used SAP Graphics to place graphic front-ends on the management reporting within our SAP data quality tool, Harlex DataSuite.

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