Appendix A

Appendix

Financial Accounting (FI)

Accounts Payable Accounting (FI-AP)
Business Process

Description

Post incoming invoice without invoice verification

Posting an incoming invoice, analyzing the accounting documents and the

effects in Cash Management

One-time invoice with online check printing

Entering an invoice from a one-time vendor,

then paying this vendor by check

Down payment processing (vendor)

Processing a down payment for a purchase order in

Materials Management, processing follow-up activities:
Goods receipt, invoice receipt, offsetting against down payments
already made and final payment

Recurring entries

The monthly rent is posted monthly in accordance with the rental

agreement using a recurring entry document

Invoice parking

Parking an invoice, then changing it, and showing various display functions
(with or without Workflow)

Automatic payment

Entering vendor line items, showing the payment and printing process

Voiding checks, and canceling a payment

Voiding a check, canceling a payment, and resetting the payment

to status open payables

Reprinting a single check

Reprinting a check, because check form was damaged

Restarting check print program

Restarting program for printing checks

Reprinting a damaged check run

Printing a new set of checks, updating the check

register by adding the new check numbers

Jurisdiction tax processing (USA)

Entering vendors and customer invoices in

Financial Accounting, analyzing the tax posting records

Info System (Vendors)

Analyzing due dates, items in foreign currencies, and overdue items

Closing activities in Accounts Receivable

and Accounts Payable

Performing various closing activities, analyzing the closing entries that

are generated

Invoicing from Materials Management (MM)

Creating a material order, goods receipt invoice, and a vendor invoice,

paid with a check

Separate voiding and printing of an issued check

Voiding a check without reversal of the payment document and creation

of a new check with reference to original payment document

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Accounts Receivable Accounting (FI-AR)

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Business Process

Description

Creating order and authenticating all documents

in Accounting

Demonstrating an integrated process from entering an order in SD, to

delivering goods, invoicing customers, and then entering an incoming
payment. Analyzing the effects in Cash Management and the documents in
Accounting (Financial Accounting and Profitability Analysis)

Dunning customers

Dunning customers whose receivables are overdue

Info System (Customers)

Global analysis of open items per customer nationality, analysis for each
company code in corporate group

Closing activities in Accounts Payable and Receivable

Performing various closing activities, analyzing the closing entries that are
generated

Creating correspondence

Creation of correspondence with processing of open items and subsequent

printing of correspondence type

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Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

Business Process

Description

Acquisition of assets

Creating a master record for a future asset before it is ordered.

The purchase order is assigned to the asset account. The asset is
capitalized automatically upon goods receipt.

Goods issue for asset

Creating an asset master record, posting the goods issue from the
warehouse to the asset

Posting a post-capitalization

Post-capitalization of an item that was posted by mistake

to expenses

Transfer posting within a company

Transferring an asset within a company

Fixed asset retirement

Retirement of an asset from fixed assets to achieve a profit

Depreciation adjustments and write-ups

Increasing the useful life of an existing asset; then adjusting

depreciations in non-closed years, and posting write-ups for closed years

Allocation and transfer of reserves from

retirement revenues

Posting an asset retirement with revenue,

allocating a reserve at the end of a fiscal year, writing off and transferring
reserves to a newly acquired asset in the following fiscal year

Subsequent acquisition costs

Posting subsequent acquisitions for an existing asset number, for a new

asset sub-number with or without modifying the depreciation start date

Closing activities in Asset Accounting

Performing various closing reports, analyzing the closing entries that are
generated

Fixed asset retirement

Selling an asset with sales revenue and posting against customer

Mass asset retirement

Posting of mass asset retirement using a worklist

Mass changes in asset master record

Creation of assets to carry out mass changes, using a worklist

Copying of planned depreciation into cost center

planning

Transferring planned depreciations and interest

from Asset Accounting and Controlling into cost center planning

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Gneral Ledger Accounting (FI-GL)

Business Process

Description

Examples of cost-of-sales accounting

postings in repetitive manufacturing

Demonstrating an integrated process in repetitive

manufacturing: Confirmations, scrap, determining surcharges, work in
progress, variances in the production order, showing how these
variances are dealt with in Financial Accounting
Analyzing the documents generated in Accounting, how the production
costs were posted to functional areas in the profit and loss statement
(created using cost-of-sales accounting)

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Examples of cost-of-sales accounting

postings: Order processing

Demonstrating an integrated process: From entering

an order in SD, delivering goods, and billing a customer, analyzing
the effects this has on the profit and loss statement
(created using cost-of-sales accounting)

Examples of cost-of-sales accounting

postings: Other Accounting and
Controlling examples

Posting various costs to cost objects (cost center, internal order),

analyzing the documents generated in Accounting,
and how these costs were posted to functional areas in the
profit and loss statement (created using cost-of-sales accounting)

Information System for G/L accounts (Germany)

Demonstrating the balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and cash flow
analysis of IDES AG, showing the various analysis options

Closing activities in Asset Accounting

Running various closing reports, analyzing the closing postings generated

(also available in Asset Accounting)

Closing activities in Accounts Payable and Receivable

Running various closing reports, analyzing the closing postings

generated (also available in Accounts Payable and
Receivable Accounting)

Closing activities in G/L Accounting

Running various closing reports, analyzing the closing postings generated

Integrated planning of G/L accounting with

Controlling

Automatic posting of planned data in Controlling into G/L via integration

interfaces

Definition of financial calendar

Defining a financial calendar to provide overview of planned work

in Financial Accounting and the persons responsible for this work

Inventory sampling procedure

Selecting a sample from the stock management units to minimize cost

and work involved for an inventory

Periodic inventory

Physical check of all assets of an organization with complete

inventory count on a balance sheet key date

Continuous inventory

Physical check of all assets of an organization with complete

inventory count during the year

Cross company code sales processing

Processing of a sales order between two company codes with direct

delivery of goods to the customer and creation of two invoices

Cross company code transfer via

scheduling agreement

Sales order processing between two company codes with creation of a

scheduling agreement and goods transfer

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Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL)

Business Process

Description

Cost-of-sales reporting: Settings

Carrying out profit and loss statement reports with cost-of-sales accounting
and information on conditions and data

Consolidation (FI-LC)
Business Process

Description

Master data

Showing hierarchies and reporting hierarchies for the various companies

Status management

Showing the consolidation status of various subgroups

Data monitor

Showing the status and the procedure for transferring data for the companies
in the subgroups

Standardizing entries

Creating and displaying a standardizing entry

Validation of local and group currency values

Displaying the validation rule of a company, performing local

currency validations

Business Process

Description

Currency transaltion

Running a currency translation program without actually

making postings

Intercompany elimination

Performing IC elimination without actually making postings

Consolidation of investments

Running a consolidation of investments program without actually

making postings

Reporting

Running a closing report, line item report, and summary report using
a reporting tree, running a report forconsolidated data using the
Executive Information System (EIS)

Business area consolidation

Performing business area consolidation,

create reports

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Real Estate Management

AA-6

Business Process

Description

Master Data: Creating Business Entity,

Property, Land Register, Building, Rental Units

Displaying and/or creating organizational structures and master data

in Real Estate Management

Rental: Management of Interested

Parties and Lease-Out

Displaying and/or creating a rental request searching for matching rental

units, creating an offer as well as creating and activating a lease-out

Rental: Tenant Changeover

Displaying and/or creating a renewal for a limited lease out, assigning

periods of notice, creating and activating a notice, creating a
rental inspection

Rental Accounting: Debit Position for

External Lease-Out and Vacancy

Simulating and/or executing a debit position and displaying you

tenants open items. In addition, simulating and posting of imputed costs
occurred on a vacant rental unit

Rental Accounting: Incoming Payments

(Manual or Automatic, Electronic Account Statement)

Carrying out or displaying a number of different types of manual incoming

payments as well as an automatic incoming payment using an electronic
account statement. Creating dunning notices and statements on a lease-out

Rent Adjustment

Simulating and/or executing rent adjustments using various adjustment

methods (adjustments based on an index, a graduated rent adjustment,
freely definable by amount or percentage, and based on sales revenue of
the tenant)

Service Charge Settlement

Defining participating rental units, displaying a settlement variant, defining a

settlement unit, releasing cost collectors, executing debit position, entering
an invoice, simulating and executing the operating costs settlement,
calculating and adjusting advance payments based on settlement results.
You can also choose to display parts of this process

External Service Charge Settlement

Importing the A-tape, creating the ML-tape;

importing the D-tape and subsequent posting of the settlement result;
activating the adjustments for advance payments

Rental: Lease-In

Creating a lease-in contract, partner with a vendor account, setting up the

resubmission functionality, cost and revenue distribution functionality,
conducting resubmission and renewal reports

Integration: AA

Displaying and creating assets for real estate objects and displaying a
depreciation order attached to an asset

Integration: CO

Reporting for Profit Center Accounting; reporting of costs and revenues of

Real Estate objects

Integration: Plant Maintenance

Creating a malfunction report for a functional location, generating

a maintenance order, processing the order and confirmation of completion.
Setting up customizing setting to automatically create functional location for
real estate objects. You also have the option of displaying parts of these
processes

Document Management

Displaying documents attached to Real Estate objects

Information Systems

Running vacancy reports for Real Estate objects and rental unit to lease-out
analysis

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Investitionsmanagement (IM)
Business Process

Description

Creating master data: investment programs,

projects, orders

Creating an investment program: creating one project, two orders and

one budget order for asset acquisitions, assigning these to positions
in the investment program

Cost planning for capital investments

Performing bottom-up planning for investment measures

Budgeting functions for capital investments

Adjusting budget values for the investment program

Procurement for capital investments

Generating actual values and commitments for investment measures;

purchase orders are posted using the Materials Management component,
acquisitions and down payments are entered in Financial Accounting,
internal activity allocations in Controlling

Availability control for internal orders

Ability to use the active availability control

Interest calculation for investment projects

Calculating interest for the capital invested in the project

Settlement and closing of investment measures

Settling and closing investment measures

Lump-sum budgets for asset acquisition

Budget management for assets that are posted directly

Drilldown reporting for investment programs and

investment measures

Demonstrating the various reporting options

Treasury (TR)
Business Process

Description

Check deposit transaction

Processing check information stored in the system in accordance with

account assignment regulations; posting FI documents using batch input
processing

Cash management

Mapping the Treasury process

Integrated Scenarios
Business Process

Description

Creating an order, verification of all documents in

Accounting

Integrated process for entering an order, creating a delivery note and posting
a goods issue; data transfer to Accounts Receivable Accounting, followed
by entry of the payment; displaying the various values in profitability and
sales accounting

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Controlling (CO)
Overhead Cost Controlling (CO-OM)
Master Data

AA-8

Business Process

Description

Changing cost center hierarchies

Making extensive changes to an existing cost center hierarchy

Variable cost center lists

Displaying a list with user-definable fields from the cost center master record

Lists and hierarchies of cost elements and cost centers

Displaying and processing a cost element list or cost center hierarchy

Manual collective processing of internal orders

Generating a list where it is also possible to maintain the Settlement cost

element and Receiving cost center fields

Automatic collective processing of internal orders:

Changing statuses

Editing the master data of several orders simultaneously

Automatic collective processing of internal orders:

Making substitutions

Automatic changing of order master data in accordance with the rules

specified

Master data index for orders

Creating a master data index and order group

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Planning
Business Process

Description

Planning processor (Customizing)

Creating a planning layout, assigning this to a planning profile, displaying

this in the planning processor

Transfer of planned depreciation to cost center

planning

Transferring depreciation values in Asset Accounting to cost center planning

Plan reconciliation, copying plan

versions for cost centers and orders

Copying a plan version for cost centers and orders, reconciling the range of
activities offered (planned activity quantity) with the activity requirements
(scheduled activities) of a cost center

Cost component split

Demonstrating a cost component split, a switching structure, and a split

report

Short range enterprise planning

Showing how the system can be used for linking various plans (sales plan,
production plan, cost plan, profitability plan) to perform short range
enterprise planning

Integrated internal orders

Demonstrating the planning integration between cost center planning and

order planning

Budget management for internal orders

Demonstrating budget management by showing the functions

Enter budget and Update budget

Transaction-Based Postings
Business Process

Description

Entering activity allocation via the Internet

Demonstrating internal activity allocation via the Internet

(for fitters working as field staff)

New account assignment logic

Displaying a posting with the account assignment objects Cost center

and Order using the reporting options for internal orders and
Cost Center Accounting

Active availability control for internal orders

Identifying that a budget has been exceeded, showing how the user is
informed of this in good time

Creating commitments for internal orders,

using these for reporting

Creating various fund utilizations, performing active availability

control for an order

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Period-End Closing

AA-10

Business Process

Description

Transfer of statistical key figures from the

Logistics Information System

Displaying settings for transfer of key figures, carrying out the transfer

Distribution

Defining a distribution cycle, further settlement of costs when planned

costs are distributed

Accrual calculation using the cost element

percentage method

Demonstrating the time-based and non-time-based accrual of costs

Accrual calculation using the target-actual,

or planned-actual method

Demonstrating the time-based and non-time-based accrual of costs using

the target-actual, or planned-actual method

Assessment

Defining an assessment cycle, further settlement of costs taking the

assessment of planned costs as an example

Indirect activity allocation

Displaying a cycle for indirect activity allocation, performing the internal

activity allocation plan

Target / Actual activity allocation

Performing target / actual activity allocation, displaying and analyzing

the related activity network

Value-based overhead (fixed and variable)

Displaying a calculation sheet for overhead, performing and deleting

actual overhead calculation

Quantity-based overhead

Defining a calculation sheet, calculating actual overhead, displaying order

reporting

Settlement of internal orders to Profitability Analysis

and settlement by amount for internal orders

Activating settlement by amount, performing order settlement

Hierarchical order settlement

Settling orders to other orders of the same settlement run

Order settlement with source assignment

Settling the costs incurred on a sender order (by cost element or cost
element group) to various receivers

Plan and actual cost splitting

Calling up and displaying plan cost splitting

Cost center variance

Calling up variance calculation and progressive calculation of variance results

Actual price calculation

Displaying and carrying out a version for actual price calculation

Passing cost center cost assessment on to

Profitability Analysis

Defining a cost assessment cycle, allocating the costs of a cost center to

Profitability Analysis

FI/CO reconciliation

Examining and carrying out cross-transaction and cross-company-code

postings

Archiving

Demonstrating plan data archiving

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Information System
Business Process

Description

Analyses in Cost Center Accounting

Demonstrating analysis and navigation options in reporting in

Cost Center Accounting

Use of threshold values in Cost Center Accounting

Displaying a cost center report using threshold values

Activity price report via Internet

Displaying an activity price report for the activity types of individual

cost centers

Analyses in Order Controlling

Demonstrating analysis and navigation options in reporting in

Order Controlling

Order summarization

Summarizing and analyzing orders of the same type

Report Painter: Creating basic reports

Defining a report for quick reference

Report Painter: Creating reports with formulas

Defining a cost center report using formulas

Report Painter: Creating and using report templates

Defining a report template, using this to create reports

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Activity-Based Costing (CO-ABC)

Business Process

Descrition

Direct activity allocation from cost centers to processes Showing that the technique for direct activity allocation from cost centers to
processes is the same as for allocation between cost centers.

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Indirect activity allocation from cost centers

to processes

Showing that this also functions in the same way as between cost centers.
Crediting sender cost centers and debiting processes using the cycle-segment
technique.

Activity allocation from cost centers to processes

using structured processes

Showing structured processes to be inverse procedures for resource

absorption, which are substantially more flexible than indirect activity
allocation and allow differentiation between variable and fixed
recorded quantities.

Manual process quantities and price planning

Displaying the quantities of the defined cost drivers as process quantities.

Dividing process costs by the process quantity to calculate the price that is
used subsequently to allocate the process costs.

Process quantity planning using scheduled activities

from PP

Showing how data from PP can be used during process quantity planning.

Price calculation

Showing how prices are calculated automatically if planning costs and

quantities are available for the process.

Process templates for product cost estimates

Showing how process costs are made into transparent overhead in the
standard cost estimate for products.

Process templates for production orders

Using a detailed example to show the display of process costs of a

production order, in a similar way as for a product cost estimate not
referring to an order.

Transfer of process costs to Profitability Analysis

for direct sales

Showing how, for sales of stock products, the costs of the products sold are
broken down in Profitability Analysis using their cost elements in the product
cost estimate.

Sales-order-related production with update

of cost drivers in the Logistics Information System

Allocating process costs using key figures from the Logistics Information
System (LIS).

Transfer of LIS key figures to statistical key figures

of processes

Showing the LIS key figures in the IDES example as statistical key figures
on the processes.

Controlling activity input for processes using

statistical key figures

Using statistical key figures for processes as the key for indirect activity
allocation of cost centers to processes.

Transfer of LIS key figures to Profitability Analysis

Transferring the same LIS key figures to market segments of Profitability

Analysis at the end of the value chain.

Process assessments in Profitability Analysis

Assessing the process costs to Profitability Analysis using the transferred

LIS key figures .

Planning process assessment to market segments

Dynamic transfer of process cost planning to Profitability Analysis.

Planning resource consumption for the process

Showing resource consumptionfor process 400910, showing plan reconciliation.

Process allocation in Profitability Analysis

Carrying out allocation in Profitability Analysis using the template procedure,

dynamically allocating process quantities to the corresponding market
segment.

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Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC)

Product Cost Planning
Business Process

Description

Product cost planning for different

manufacturing processes

Costing several materials in one costing run

Costing and simulating base planning objects

Using base object costing as a tool for simulating cost estimates

Cost Object Controlling

Business Process

Description

Process industry and co-products

Collecting the costs of co-products on production and process orders,

distributing the overall costs of the production process to the co-products

Repetitive manufacturing with run schedule headers

and reporting points

Using reporting points to enter production by production line

Repetitive manufacturing with cost object hierarchies

Demonstrating how manufacturing costs are collected in a cost object

hierarchy in repetitive manufacturing

Cost Object Controlling for order-related production

Demonstrating Cost Object Controlling for order-related production

Product costing for sales order

Using product costing to perform cost planning for a configurable material

in a sales order

Controlling by sales order

Controlling purchasing and production costs for a sales order in

make-to-order manufacturing, passing on data for settlement in
Profitability Analysis

Information System
Business Process

Description

Information System (product costing)

Analyzing and selecting cost estimates on tne basis of a range criteria

Information System (order-related production)

Analyzing and selection production orders on the basis of a range criteria

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Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)

Structure
Business Process

Description

Basic structure of operating concerns

Demonstrating operating concerns in IDES with attributes and data structures

Master Data
Business Process

Description

Realignments

Deriving renewed characteristics after structural changes

Planning

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Business Process

Description

Introduction to sales and profit planning

Demonstrating the basic planning functions in CO-PA

New sales and profit planning functions

New functions for 4.0

Sales and profit planning and forecasting

Showing the copy of a plan version

Top-down distribution

Distributing planning data of material groups (at article level)

Valuation of quantity planning with reference prices

(ratios)

Performing separate price and quantity planning

Short-term business planning

Displaying the transfer of sales and profit planning data to SOP, CO-OM,
CO-PC and back to CO-PA

Data transfer LIS CO-PA

Transferring planning data from LIS to Profitability Analysis, changing and

returning the data to LIS

Budget tracing

Integrating Sales and Distribution with Profitability Analysis

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Value Flows (Actual)

Business Process

neSales order creation with billing and authentication

of all documents in Financial Accounting

Description
Displaying integrated order entry, delivery and billing, with subsequent
payment entry and evaluation in Profitability Analysis

Billing document transfers in multiple currencies

Creating sales order, delivery and billing documents, displaying the

corresponding line items

Cross-company-code sales processing

Processing intercompany transactions, showing the required settings in

Sales and Distribution, Financial Accounting and Profitability Analysis

Sales order controlling for non-valuated sales

order stock

Controlling order processing and production costs for a sales order in

make-to-order manufacturing, passing on data for settlement in Profitability
Analysis

Service controlling

Showing Service Management reporting

Service order execution and billing

Showing supply chain from Service Management to Financial Accounting

Service order processing and periodical billing

Showing supply chain from Service Management to Financial Accounting

Period-end closing for customer projects

Showing controlling in the Project System

Cost center cost assessment in Profitability Analysis

Showing the effects of cost center cost assessment in Overhead Controlling

and Profitability Analysis

Settlement of internal orders in Profitability Analysis,

settlement by amount for internal orders

Showing the settlement possibilities for internal orders

Internal activity allocation of cost centers in

Profitability Analysis

Settling a trade fair order directly in Profitability Analysis

Rebate processing in Sales and Distribution and

Financial Accounting

Creating rebate agreements, sales orders and billing documents, tracing

subsequent documents

Reporting
Business process

Description

Creating ad-hoc reports in Profitability Analysis

Creating and running an ad-hoc report

Running existing reports in Profitability Analysis,

getting to know reporting functions

Running existing reports, and editing report data using interactive

reporting functions

Creating forms and reports in Profitability Analysis

Creating a matrix form (dual coordinate) and a corresponding report

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Enterprise Controlling (EC)

Executive Information System (EIS)
Reporting with the Report Portfolio
Business Process

Description

Executing and changing existing report portfolio reports Executing an existing report portfolio
Creating and executing a new report portfolio

Creating and executing a report portfolio

Reporting with Drilldown Reports

Business Process

Description

Executing existing drilldown reports in EIS

Implementation considerations for an existing report portfolio

Creating an ad-hoc report in EIS

Creating and executing an ad-hoc report

Data Retention with EIS

Business Process

Description

Creating an aspect and transfer of R/3 data

to the aspect

Executing a report and editing of report data using interactive

report functions

Creating an aspect and importing non-SAP

data to the aspect

Creating the structures in EIS and data import

Business Planninig (BP)

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Business Process

Description

Planning in EC-BP

Standard functions of Business Planning

Planning functions in EC-BP

Planning functions in the planning layout

Planning copying, revaluation and object-dependent

parameters

Functions of automatic planning

Seasonal allocation and forecast

Functions of automatic planning

Top-Down Distribution

Distribution of annual figures to individual segments

Quota Planning

Right-of-way rules of formula calculation

Simulation calculation

Alternative plans

Data retention

Data import

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Consolidation (CS)
Business Process

Description

Master data in EC-CS

Portrayal of hierarchies of consolidation units (company, business area,

profit center, etc.) and of reporting hierarchies

Status monitors

Portrayal of the status of the different consolidation units and consolidation

groups in the data monitor and the consolidation monitor

Standardizing entry

Creating and displaying a standardizing entry

Validating values in local and group currency

Creating and displaying a validation rule and carrying out a validation

Currency translation

Definition of currency translation methods and carrying out the currency

translation

Interunit elimination

Definition and carrying out of interunit eliminations

Consolidation of investments

Assignment of consolidation of investments methods to consolidation units

and groups; carrying out different activities such as first/subsequent
consolidation, partial divestiture, step acquisition, etc.

Reporting

Execution of drilldown reports, journal entry reports, database listings

Profit Center Accounting (PCA)

Business Process

Description

Displaying standard and alternative profit

center hierarchies

Analyzing a standard profit center hierarchy

Assigning objects to profit centers

Linking cost centers, internal orders, projects, production orders,

sales orders, cost objects, materials, and assets to their respective profit
center (in the master records of the objects in question)

Copying cost center hierarchies to profit centers

Demonstrating how to transfer cost center hierarchies and cost center

to Profit Center Accounting

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Sales and Distribution (SD)

Sales
Business Process

Description

Sales order processing and follow-up functions

Entering sales order, delivery and billing

Processing special orders

Processing sales orders for immediate delivery

Special Business Transactions

AA-18

Business Process

Description

Consignment fill-up

Replenishing consignment stock at customer site

Consignment pick-up

Returning consignment stock

Consignment issue

Issuing goods from consignment stock, then billing this withdrawal

Consignment returns

Returning issued goods to consignment stock, creating a credit memo

Cross-company code sales

Intercompany sales using intercompany billing

Cross-company code stock transfer using scheduling

agreements

Intercompany stock transfer

Third-party order processing

Delivering sales orders using external vendors

Sales and distribution processing with availability

check using ATP logic

Sales order processing, rescheduling and backorders

Sales and distribution processing with availability

checks regarding allocations

Defining allocations and availability checks regarding product allocation

quantities in the sales order

Rebate processing from the Sales and Distribution

and Accounting side

Defining a rebate agreement and the settlement

Billing for a project with down payment processing

Down payment processing and billing plan with milestone confirmation

from the project

Budget tracking of sales-related measures

Promotions and sales deals from the Sales and Distribution and Profitability
Analysis side

Sales and distribution processing with value contract

Contract release orders for a value contract

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Shipping
Business Process

Description

Order combination

Combining sales orders to make up one delivery

Partial delivery

Partial deliveries for a standard order

Packaging for delivery

Packaging sales order items during delivery processing, then billing

Picking with a specific transfer order (Lean WM)

Creating a delivery as a separate business transaction

Picking with automatic transfer order (Lean WM)

Creating a WM transfer order automatically for picking

Collective picking (Lean WM)

Creating WM transfer orders for collective picking for a group of deliveries

Billing
Business Process

Description

Creating a single invoice

Creating an invoice for a specific business transaction

Invoice split

Automatically creating several invoices for one business transaction,

with different terms of payment

Creating an invoice using the billing due list

Creating invoices collectively for several due transactions

Payment card processing

Business Process

Description

Sales order processing using credit cards

Credit card processing for sales order processing with authorization and
settlement

Credit Control
Business Process

Kreditkontrolle
Dynamic credit check
Check against referenced account

Description
Entering an order and checking the customers credit limit, automatically
sending messages to the credit administrator
Managing credit for affiliated companies (three vendors)

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Sales Support
Business Process

Description

Displaying CAS master data

Displaying sales prospects and competitive products

Sales summary

Accessing customer information using a sales summary

Entering sales activities

Documenting a phone call with a customer, and arranging a appointment

with the customer

Creating a direct mailing campaign

Inviting customers and sales prospects to an information open day,

generating addresses automatically

Internet

AA-20

Business process

Description

Workflow-supported sales order post-processing

for new customers in the internet

Customers first-time purchase orders using internet with workflowsupported customer master and sales order post-processing

Creating sales orders for configurable products

in the internet

Quotation and order placement using internet for configurable products

leading to production, delivery and billing

Displaying product information in the internet

Displaying product catalogs via the internet

Creating sales orders using a product catalog

in the internet

Placing orders via the internet with automatic notification from the sales
clerk; Delivery and billing

Availability check via the internet

Releasing information using product availability via the internet

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Production Planning (PP)

Business Process

Description

Make-to-order production with a configurable product

Sales and production control, including controlling a motorcycle that

has been prepared for configuration and make-to-order production

Assembly order

Sales and production logistics for manufacturing pumps in make-to-order

production, including assembly control

Variant configuration single-level

Production of a pump with characteristic value assignment on the highest

level

Variant configuration order BOM

Production of a pump with characteristic value assignment in the order BOM

Variant configuration multilevel

Production of a pump with characteristic value assignment on more than

one levels in the sales order item.

Business processes in the automotive industry

Demonstrating sales and production processes (including assembly control)

for the automotive industry, showing kanban processing.
All relevant supply processes are included

Sales order independent planning

Planning production of a pump, not including incoming sales orders in

planning

Planning with final assembly

Planning production of a pump, including incoming sales orders in planning

Planning for assembly

Planning assembly of a pump, showing how incoming sales orders are

included in planning

Production by lot size with master production

scheduling

Production of pumps as master schedule items, grouping two sales orders

together to one production lot

Integration with Profitability Analysis and SOP

Performing Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) by importing data from

Profitability Analysis into pump production

Long-term planning

Creating two sales and operations plans (active and inactive) in pump
production, comparing these plans in a planning scenario

Collective orders

Creating collective orders for pump production (direct production) including

scheduling, releasing, and cost analysis

Planning integration: Sales & Distribution

and Production

Transferring sales plan values from Sales and Distribution to Sales and
Operations Planning (light bulb production)

Repetitive manufacturing (light bulbs)

Transferring planned values from Sales and Operations Planning to

Production, then repetitive manufacturing (light bulb production)

Repetitive manufacturing (PCs)

Planning, production and sales in the repetitive manufacturing of PCs

Manufacturing loose goods, filling in process industries Component procurement, production and canning of loose goods (paint),
and selling in process industries

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Business Process

Description

Discontinued parts after usage

A production order exceeds warehouse stock, and automatically uses a

material that is available

Order status report

Graphical display of the order status in the production order

External processing in production

External processing including material charging at vendor site

Capacity leveling

Leveling capacity requirements from production with change analysis

KANBAN production control

Description of various replenishment strategies in KANBAN production control

CAP calculation of standard values

Automatic calculation of standard values for a routing by valuating

characteristics and reports using formulas

Displaying capacity load in the work canter hierarchy

Displaying capacity load in a work center hierarchy in order to analyze the

overall load of several work centers

Engineering change management

Extensive changes to a motorcycle, these changes are introduced on

schedule using engineering change management

Materials Management (MM)

Logistics (General)
Business Process

Description

Managing changes to the material master

Grouping together changes made to several objects to one change master

record, activating this for a specific date

Forecasting and MRP

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Business Process

Description

Forecast-based planning

Performing a forecast and MRP

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Purchasing
Business Process

Description

Standard purchase order with shipping notification

Creating a standard purchase order, editing the shipping notification

Purchasing using a scheduling agreement

Displaying a scheduling agreement, posting the goods receipt, and analyzing

the effects on the stocks/requirements list and the delivery schedule

Consignment contract

Processing a consignment contract, executing a contract release order

Pipeline processing

Displaying a pipeline material, pipeline info record, source list,

and posting a pipeline withdrawal

Cross-company code purchasing

Creating a central outline agreement, creating the purchase order,

posting the goods receipt, and performing invoice verification

INTRASTAT processing in Purchasing

Demonstrating how INTRASTAT data is processed

Quota arrangements

Displaying a material master record, and a quota agreement

Outline agreement and quantity contract

Displaying an outline agreement, maintaining the source list for the vendor
and the material

Consumable material with multiple account

assignment

Ordering a consumable material, assigning this to several cost center

accounts

Rebate processing in purchasing subsequent settlement

Subsequent settlement for rebate processing in purchasing

RFQ management and quotation processing

Starting RFQ management/quotation processing from optimized order

generation

External Services Management

Business Process

Description

Performing of planned maintenance tasks externally

Demonstrating how to initiate the external processing of a task, from order

processing to activity allocation

Stock Movement/WM
Business Process

Description

Cross-company code stock transfer

Transferring goods between various company codes

Cross-company code transfer orders with MM and SD

Delivering and billing materials between various company codes

Transfer scheduling agreement

Posting a goods receipt, and analyzing the effects of this on the stocks/
requirements list and scheduling agreement

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Invoice Verification
Business process

Description

Evaluated receipt settlement

Initiating a scheduling agreement where the customer is subject to an ERS

procedure, simplified settlement in invoice verification using the PURCHIS
procedure

Inventory and Valuation

Business Process

Description

Valuation of batches

Processing a material using a different valuation for each batch

Inventory

Performing an inventory, making an adjustment posting, testing the

goods movement during and after the inventory

Periodic inventory

Performing a period inventory

Continuous inventory

Performing a continuous inventory

The lowest value principle

Demonstrating various procedures for determining the lowest value

Inventory sampling procedure

Working through an inventory sampling procedure

Logistics Information System

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Business Process

Description

Vendor evaluation

Evaluating a vendor, and comparing several vendors with each other

Purchasing Information System

Performing a standard analysis, defining a flexible analysis

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Logistics Execution (LE)

Business Process

Description

Inbound delivery and putaway of goods into a

WM warehouse

Creating an inbound delivery for a purchase order. Putaway through

inbound delivery monitor.

Outbound delivery and shipment supported

through wave picks

Automatic creation of wave picks. Picking through a wave pick monitor.

Planning and processing of the shipment.

Goods receipt in a decentralized warehouse

Management of warehouse stock in a decentralized warehouse

management system. Creating an inbound delivery for a purchase order.
Putaway into the decentralized warehouse management system.

Goods issue for delivery in a decentralized warehouse

Management of warehouse stock in a decentralized warehouse

management system. Creating an outbound delivery for a customer order.
Picking from the decentralized warehouse management system.

Customer Service (CS)

Service Contracts
Business Process

Description

Processing a service contract with periodic billing

Creating and processing a service contract for repairs and maintenance of

customer equipment

Check system settings for configurable service

Check for prerequisites required for the processing of configurable and

pre-configured services in Customizing

Service processing and resource-related billing with

service contract

Service order processing including billing and settlement for the assigned
service contract

Spare parts delivery with service contract

Transfer of pricing agreements from a service contract to a spare parts order

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Service Processing
Business Process

Description

Selling a serialized product, creating an equipment

master record

Entering a sales order and delivery for a serialized product, creating an

equipment master record

Customer service spare parts delivery

Creation of a spare parts order from a service notification and delivery

of the spare part

Execution of a service order and billing

Service order processing including billing and settlement for profitability

analysis

Returns and repairs processing

Creation of a repair order from a service notification. Returns processing,

performing the repair, outbound delivery of equipment repaired and billing

Service order with service quotation

Creation of a quotation on the basis of a service order

Generation of a service order from a sales order

Configuration of a network installation in a sales order from which a service

order results

Processing of calls in a call center

Processing of customer calls using Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)

- in simulation mode

Controlling
Business Process

Description

Controlling of services

Controlling of services in Profitability Analysis

Quality Management (QM)

Business Process

Description

Quality Management in Procurement

Perform quality management activities at goods receipt

Project System (PS)

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Business Process

Description

Information Technology project

Planning the design and implementation of software for a new incentive

wages system

Engineering project

Customer-specific engineering/design, production, and assembly of an

elevator

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Plant Maintenance (PM)

Structuring of Technical Systems
Business Process

Description

Managing a serialized part

Purchase order and goods receipt for a serialized part, replacing a defective
part, completion confirmation, settlement, and completion of the
maintenance order

Displaying the structure of a complex technical system

Displaying the structure of a complex technical systemDescription

Maintenance Planning
Business Process

Description

Creating and scheduling time-based maintenance plans Creating a maintenance plan for defining and scheduling the work to be
performed
External processing of preventive maintenance tasks

Demonstrating simple, time-based processing of maintenance tasks by a

service provider

Maintenance Processing
Business Process

Description

Performing an urgent repair task without extensive

resource planning

Simple processing of a repair order

Inspection followed by repairs using a subsequent

maintenance order enhancement

Creating a maintenance order, malfunction report, and enhancement of

an existing order

Performing a repair task with extensive resource

planning

Complete processing of notifications and orders, including task lists,

cost estimates, and cost monitoring

Simplified external assignment of maintenance tasks

Displaying the integrated flow of information between Plant Maintenance

and Procurement

Entering measurement readings

Entering and analyzing counter readings and operating conditions

Processing a material refurbishment without serial

numbers

Repairing a material from the warehouse for damaged material using a

refurbishment order with revaluation

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Human Resources (HR)

Personal Administration
Business Process

Description

Wage group reassignment and wage level

reassignment

Entering time tickets and premium wage tickets, reassigning wage group
and wage level for incentive wage earners

Fast entry of travel expenses, payment via data

medium exchange

Entering and running accounting for domestic trips

Entering receipts for travel expenses,

and transferring results of travel expense
accounting run to Payrol

Entering trips with lump sum mileage and receipts only

Entire travel expense accounting process

Demonstrating the entire travel expense accounting process

Hiring a new employee

Filling a vacant position, and entering all the data required for hiring

Approval and rejection of absence

Entering, checking, and unlocking a locked leave request

Complete payroll process

(including subsequent programs)

Complete payroll process including transfer of data to Financial Accounting

and creation of files for data medium exchange

Complete positive time management process

(including integration with Payroll)

Complete positive time management process with transfer of paid overtime

data to Payroll

Personnel Planning

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Business Process

Description

Human Resource Information System

Graphical reporting for organization, headcount, and training courses on

offer, for example

Career planning

Planning individual career steps for an employee

Succession planning and determining need

for further training

Searching in a career model for potential successors for a position

Shift planning

Performing shift planning on the basis of the staffing schedule

Personnel cost planning

Planning personnel costs on basis of projected pay, or payroll results

for previous year

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Incentive Wages
Business Process

Description

Individual incentive wages

Making settings for incentive wage earners, defining premium formulas

Group incentive wages

Using the Incentive Wages component for a group incentive wage

Confirmation for production order

(integration between Logistics and HR)

Taking production confirmation as an example to show how Logistics

and HR are integrated

Time tickets in Payroll

Entering time tickets, checking these tickets in the remuneration statement

of the original time tickets

Time leveling

Demonstrating the various applications of time leveling

Reassignment to wage group and wage level

Demonstrating reporting options for Wage group reassignment and Wage

level reassignment

IDES@WEB
Consumer-to-Business
Business Process

Description

Availability information via the Internet

Call information on product availability via the Internet

Order entry on the Internet using a product catalog

Quotation and order placement via the Internet with automatic notification
of sales personnel, delivery and invoicing

Display product information on the Internet

Display product catalogs on the Internet

Order entry on the Internet for configurable products

Quotation and order placement via the Internet for configurable products
with subsequent production, delivery and invoicing

Quality notification output via the Internet

Customer complaint entry via the Internet

Business-to-Business
Business Process

Description

Quality certificate output via the Internet

Request and receipt of quality certificates via the Internet

Entry of measured values and counter readings

via the Internet

Confirmation of counter values to a service provider via the Internet

Activity allocation via the Internet

Internal activity allocation via the Internet

Activity price report via the Internet

Display an activity price report for activity types via the Internet

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Intranet
Business Process

Description

Display employee data on the Internet

Display employee data on the Internet using the Who is who

application component

Collective release of purchase orders via the Internet

Release of requirements (mass processing)

Workflow

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Business Process

Description

Document parking (FI)

An invoice received by fax is parked and checked in an approval workflow

before it is completed and released for payment. Depending on the amount
involved, various procedures and agents are selected for approval
(which may entail several stages) by the workflow
One to two-stage approval procedure, depending on the business transaction

Recruitment

Applications received for a job advertised externally automatically start a

predefined workflow that maps the entire recruitment process

Approval and rejection of leave request

Leave requests are forwarded automatically to the relevant superior for

approval. The employee is then notified of whether the request was
approved or rejected by means of a workflow

Leave form

An employee fills out a leave request, which is forwarded to the relevant

superior for approval by means of SAP Business Workflow and processed
via the workflow inbox. After the request has been checked by the superior,
the employee is notified of his or her decision. If the request is rejected, the
employee can withdraw it or resubmit it in a different form. This process is
integrated in HR in the approval and rejection of leave request process.

Leave request: selected details in the workflow

definition

Representation of the main components in a workflow definition, use of the

workflow tools and sections of the IDES organizational structure.

Purchase requisition release with classification

and link to workflow

Creation a purchase requisition assigned to an account. This requisition is

subject to a release strategy with classification with workflow. The entire
release process is handled as a workflow.

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Business Process

Description

Recruitment

The entire recruitment process, from the application stage to hiring of a new
employee, is mapped

Procurement process on the Internet

An employee issues a requirement coverage request over the Internet or

intranet which creates a purchase requisition automatically. Depending on
the amount, material group etc., this purchase requisition is subject to a
release procedure that is controlled by a workflow and also handled over
the Internet or intranet. What is remarkable about this scenario is that all
of the user actions are made via the web browser while the business
processes and objects are managed in R/3.

Service Management

A workflow coordinates the activities of the author of a service notification

(hotline service) and the associated service technician in order to solve a
particular customer problem.

Plant Maintenance

Create a maintenance notification on the basis of a message issued by

an employee in production. This notification is forwarded to the technical
responsible for the maintenance work.

Engineering Change Management ECM

Changes necessary due to a customer problem are controlled by a workflow

from the point at which the customer message is received until the
requested change is completed and released.

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