Tired of relying on ancient documentation and outdated Google results to run SAP Business ByDesign? Look no further! Whether you're just learning to navigate from screen to screen or you're ready to dive straight in to core operations, you'll get the step-by-step instructions you need. You'll find information on all your keys tasks, from creating sales orders and handling service requests to paying suppliers and approving time sheets. If you're using SAP Business ByDesign, this is the book for you!

Highlights include:

1. Navigation
2. Master data
3. Customer relationship management (CRM)
4. Service management
5. Supplier relationship management (SRM)
6. Supply chain planning
7. Warehouse management
8. Project management
9. Financial and management accounting
10. Human resources (HR)
11. Reporting and analytics
12. Administration

Tips and tricks from SAP Business ByDesign experts to save you time

Autorentext
Laura (Becca) Widner is the SAP Business ByDesign consulting manager and finance lead at Illumiti with seven years of consulting experience and more than 20 SAP Business ByDesign implementations completed in multiple industries. She also implemented and was an end user of SAP Business ByDesign as a controller for a manufacturing company before beginning her consulting career. Becca holds a masters degree in accounting from Salve Regina University and is a certified professional accountang with more than 30 years of accounting/finance experience in the chemical compounding, plastic fabrication, publishing, distribution, and manufacturing industries.

Inhalt
**... Foreword from Rainer Zinow ... 15**

... Preface ... 17

... Target Audience ... 17

... The Objective and Structure of This Book ... 17

... Acknowledgments ... 18

1 ... General Navigation ... 21

1.1 ... Introduction to SAP Business ByDesign ... 21

1.2 ... Home ... 25

1.3 ... Managing Your Area ... 48

1.4 ... Summary ... 51

2 ... Master Data ... 53

2.1 ... Account Master Data ... 53

2.2 ... Supplier Master Data ... 67

2.3 ... Product Hierarchy ... 80

2.4 ... Products ... 82

2.5 ... Entitlements ... 102

2.6 ... Organizational Management ... 108

2.7 ... Planning and Production Master Data ... 110

2.8 ... Supply Chain Master Data ... 129

2.9 ... Warehousing and Logistics Master Data ... 133

2.10 ... Summary ... 141

3 ... Customer Relationship Management ... 143

3.1 ... Account Management ... 144

3.2 ... Marketing ... 150

3.3 ... New Business ... 163

3.4 ... Sales Orders, Contracts, and Returns ... 182

3.5 ... Pricing ... 222

3.6 ... Summary ... 239

4 ... Service Management ... 241

4.1 ... Service Entitlements ... 241

4.2 ... Service Desk ... 278

4.3 ... Service Orders ... 287

4.4 ... Field Service and Repair ... 312

4.5 ... Summary ... 324

5 ... Supplier Relationship Management ... 325

5.1 ... Sourcing and Contracting ... 325

5.2 ... Purchasing ... 344

5.3 ... Summary ... 373

6 ... Supply Chain Management ... 375

6.1 ... Planning ... 375

6.2 ... Supply Control ... 395

6.3 ... Summary ... 402

7 ... Warehouse Management ... 403

7.1 ... Common Warehouse Management Tasks ... 403

7.2 ... Inbound Logistics ... 439

7.3 ... Outbound Logistics Control ... 468

7.4 ... Outbound Logistics ... 473

7.5 ... Internal Logistics ... 499

7.6 ... Physical Inventory ... 534

7.7 ... Production Control ... 553

7.8 ... Execution ... 563

7.9 ... Summary ... 579

8 ... Project Management ... 581

8.1 ... Projects ... 582

8.2 ... Time Sheets ... 617

8.3 ... Time and Expenses ... 623

8.4 ... Resource Management ... 625

8.5 ... Approvals ... 634

8.6 ... Change Management ... 638

8.7 ... Invoice Preparation ... 640

8.8 ... Summary ... 656

9 ... Financial and Management Accounting ... 657

9.1 ... General Ledger Accounting ... 658

9.2 ... Accounts Payable ... 681

9.3 ... Accounts Receivable ... 703

9.4 ... Cash and Liquidity Management ... 729

9.5 ... Payment Management ... 756

9.6 ... Travel and Expense ... 772

9.7 ... Fixed Assets ... 777

9.8 ... Inventory Valuation ... 801

9.9 ... Cost and Revenue ... 814

9.10 ... Tax Management ... 825

9.11 ... Summary ... 828

10 ... Human Capital Management ... 829

10.1 ... Personnel Administration ... 829

10.2 ... Time Administration ... 834

10.3 ... Compensation ... 851

10.4 ... Summary ... 863

11 ... Analytics for Business Users ... 865

11.1 ... Working with Reports ... 865

11.2 ... Dashboards ... 878

11.3 ... Summary ... 886

12 ... Administration ... 889

12.1 ... Business Configuration ... 889

12.2 ... Application and User Management ... 891

12.3 ... Summary ... 911

... The Authors ... 913

... Index ... 915