SAP ABAP Performance Tuning Tips & Tricks

Need for performance tuningABAP is the universal language in the World of SAP programming and the focus is also on getting a team of efficient programmers as early as possible in each and every part of the project, both for handing over the technical specifications to them and also for asking them to toss out the ABAP programs within the “given deadlines” as well.

The key focus of assembling an efficient program takes a back seat since this force has a greater pressure of schedules along with deliveries to accomplish successful outcomes. Also an proficient ABAP program is one which brings the wanted output to the user in a finite time according to the complexity involved in the program, rather than hearing the comment “I put the program to run, have my lunch and come back to check the results”.

A performance optimized ABAP program saves the time of the end user, thus increasing the productivity of the user, and in turn keeps the user as well as the management happy leaving aside the hyperbole. SAP ABAP performing tuning tips and tricks are used for making the ABAP programs efficient in doing their work. This tuning tips and tricks also assume that the reader is well versed in each and every concepts and syntax of ABAP programming.

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Some SAP implementation benefits include:

 

• Gradual declination in the total cost of ownership
• Accomplishment of faster return on investment
• Imparting flexibility in business processes
• Inspection of entire business processes
• Integration, collaboration, planning, execution, and coordination of the complete supply chain network
• Achievement of consistent as well as apparent business insights
• Develop employee productivity
• Creation of a quality work environment
• Achievement of operational excellence and growth
• Exploitation of additional solutions with ease

 

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SAP Business One in Ecommerce: Integration highlights

SAP BO is moving to ecommerce with the acquisition of NetPoint ecommerce and web CRM modules, however if you already have functioning ecommerce website the idea of redeployment might be not very attractive. Let’s take a look at simple ecommerce functionality

• Ecommerce Business Logic. When new customer decides to place the order, ecommerce should create new customer record with delivery address, then create web order, plus typically charge customer credit card. All this logic is standard functionality of out of shelf or custom made ecommerce application.

• Excel CSV Templates and Integration Workbench. First what could come to your mind is deploying user-friendly SAP Integration bench by putting customer and sales order information into Excel or csv templates. This might work, however it might be exposed to human errors and probably you should consider, that these csv templates were intended to help you with initial data integration and conversion from legacy ERP to SAP BO.

• Light SAP B1 SDK programming. This customization option is not as difficult as you could think of. You need Visual Studio .Net developer, familiar with C# or VB.Net programming. In SAP BO we recommend you do not import ecommerce orders as invoices, but instead place them as Sales Orders. The reason – SAP BO Invoices are not stored in the batch but immediately posted when you add them – in our opinion you should review customer orders prior to post them all the way through to General Ledger

• SAP Business One as ERP Backend. Besides its integration capabilities, SAP BO has light manufacturing, bill of materials, assembly, robust inventory control module, plus it has integrated CRM, which could help you in generating customer leads via telemarketing campaigns, etc. SAP B1 has integration module, which allows you to consolidate SAP BO company to high-end SAP application, such as mySAP or SAP All-in-One – this option should be considered by large companies, opening subsidiaries overseas

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Integrating XML into SAP Business Connector

Corporations are always in search of the most effective mechanism for both acquiring and selling goods as well as services at very minimum total cost over the Internet. The Business Process Connectors for SAP systems supports for the dynamic integration between the application processes and server systems thus it facilitates in faster and efficient functioning of SAP R/3, SAP Portals and MySAP solutions. In the current model, SAP Business Connector Framework uses XML schemas for generating a JSP that can be assessed from any of the web browsers dynamically, so that one can test and deploy integration tools between the application server environment and SAP systems immediately. For the purpose of adding flexibility, convergence of XML schema approach to the SA Business Connector facilitates to all the SAP standards. Thereby the customers can leverage the power and flexibility of XML into their business documents with an improved efficiency and improved cost-effectiveness as well.

Integrating Business Connectors with XML

SAP BC combines both the RFC server and the client. Additionally it supplies an XML layer over R/3 functionality and also comes with XML automation since it has the ability in converting SAP’s RFC format into XML. There is no requirement of SAP R/3 automation at the receiving end since it supports both synchronous RFC and asynchronous RFC protocols.

Benefits of XML Integration:

End-to-End Web Business Processes

Internet bridges the gap between different businesses, systems and users and facilitates them to do business via web. SAP BC makes communication easier by its XML conversions. By means of integration with XML, it enables the exchange of structured business documents over the Internet by providing common standard for various applications together with IT systems for communing with each other and for exchanging business data. Open Business Document Exchange over the Internet

SAP Business Connector uses hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) for exchanging XML-based documents over the Internet. Without the need of developing tool, it guarantees the security in replacing of documents in accordance with the help of its SSL (Security Socket Layer) technology. Additionally, SAP BC offers openness and flexibility for complying with emerging semantics of business that keep on changing frequently.

XML Solutions for SAP services

SAP BC makes all solutions to be accessible by means of XML based business documents and with the support of XML-based interface Repository (IFR) and empowers SAP customers to benefit from SAP functionality over the Internet, it helps all major existing interfaces that are being offered by SAP. This particular IFR gives the choice of downloading XML schemas and tenders a uniform XML interface representation despite different implementation technologies such as RFC, IDOC and BAPI. XML messages are easily translated into equivalent SAP internal call whenever you need and it gets converted back into XML format when received from SAP system thereby enhancing the existing programming model for distributed applications formed by ALE along with SAP BC.

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SAP Business One Ecommerce Integration Highlights

In this small article we would like to give you SAP Business One SDK integration options, if you already own and operate e-commerce business. Legacy ecommerce website might be substantial historical investment and the idea to slash it and re-implement SAP Business One ecommerce module might be theoretically logical, but very expensive step, which will undermine your legacy ecommerce investment,, at least large portion of it. You can stay in SAP B1 realm and deploy different tool – SAP Business One SDK – you will need SAP BO technical consultant or programmer to code your plan

• Connector approach. Yes, this good old-days approach is still feasible. Try to design the connector – you ecommerce should send data into staging table, from where connector should pick data and mark it as processed/integrated or delete.

• Integration Simplicity. Try to make it really primitive and very simple – in this case SAP BO SDK programming should be very light, quick and simple and will not require tons of SAP B1 SDK programming experience

• Sales Orders. SAP B1 architecture suggests you use Sales Order, rather than invoice as integration object. We discourage you to integrate on invoice level, because invoice should be “added” or in accounting terms “posted”. In ERP you probably would like your operator to review customer orders, prior to be posted

• Programming Language. C# and VB.Net – this is very good news for you – these programmers are available on the job market, plus a lot of consulting companies practice these services. Tool of choice is Microsoft Visual Studio (.Net)

• SAP B1 Ecommerce module. We recommend you to review this module seriously and if you can afford to re-deploy your ecommerce website – this might be another good option, which should work in long term, assuming that you have enough time and resource for redesign

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SAP ERP - The Great Equalizer

Manufacturing is a much simpler process than the convoluted melange of hardware and software choices that confront manufacturers today.

By giving unique commodity product, available in limited locations, a buyer should pay high costs to the shipping and long trip traveling. But increasing mobility changed the situation some what.

Before introduction of advertisement in the market unusual products are difficult to find in the market. A person might see a product carried out by the foreigner and he wants to inquire the origin of the maker to order a similar product. But he could not contact the particular person because of unlimited resources. Due to the unlimited resources it will take long time to fulfill the buyer needs. So to eliminate that problem temporarily the "supply chain" began with obtaining an address for the manufacturer, sending a letter of order and waiting for a response.

After innovation of computers the small companies they started using that to giants in their industries by giving them the great equalizer. To blame it on information the computers made lot of mistakes so much easier and faster. Finally they raised the question, what did we do without them? The question is no longer, where can I get the information I need? The question is now, what do I do with all the information I have? To overcome the above problem SAP ERP has given some solution.

EVOLUTION OF SAP ERP

Finally we got the solution but the solution is much more complex than the problem. First we should separate the information form the delivery mechanism and data. But data does nothing but fill computer drives until it is presented in an intelligent form to people. Then it becomes information.

Levels of SAP ERP Information

 

Nowadays varieties of programs are designed for the purpose of company’s suits. They will convert the data into the information, usually for a specific purpose or function. For example Shop floor workers need one level of information, in real-time, about the process or production; executives need a different view of that data for long-range planning and short-term deployment.

In many situations, data are available but in uncollected format. To correct that data we need lot of stuff, by doing manual entry, bar code scanning or sensor monitoring. Data mining and data warehousing applications involve this aspect of information development but the databases are becoming larger and larger as companies find more and more data to store. But all those bytes are still just a data only.

To answering the above difficulties the software developers have looked for ways to bring many divergent requirements under a single, if huge, umbrella program called SAP enterprise resource planning or SAP ERP. What SAP ERP strives to do is to combine the needed functions of every application a company requires to do its job and integrate them all together.

· "SAP ERP allows the organizations to balance customer demands impacted by multiple interrelated items and multiple plant locations.”

· SAP ERP is a very hot trend in manufacturing/information technology circles right now, and all developments indicating that it getting even hotter and hotter. Advanced Manufacturing Research (AMR) estimates that the worldwide SAP ERP software market grew in a short period of time, from $7.2 billion in 1996 to $9.6 billion in 1997. “The Growth of the SAP ERP market moves towards the increasingly global business”.

· The entire forests have facing/addressing the problems of process control but what about the problem of information control? Columbia Contech (Vancouver, Wash.), a manufacturer of electric equipment, control systems and regulators, was confronted with same problem, and he got solution in an SAP ERP system provided by Data Works (San Diego, Calif.), a leading vendor of SAP ERP software and solutions.

· "Before us getting our ERP system from Data Works, we manually costed our SAP jobs when they were completed”. Now days the overall control of the information has gotten much better through the system.

· SAP ERP makes difference at the shipping and distribution end of a company. Our SAP ERP system should overcome the duplications, delays and mistakes on delivery times, and manufacturing has become more flexible. Shipments can go direct so need to stock materials or finished goods.

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