SAP R/3 Reporting Made Easy, 4.6C: Fundamentals and Development Tools

Fundamentals and Development Tools

 A tactical approach to using SAP R/3 to meet the reporting needs of your company and team

 Ideas and checklists to help implementation teams meet reporting related challenges

 Techniques to help you find standard reports in SAP R/3

 Basic and advanced topics to help users and implementation teams become familiar with the reporting capabilities of SAP R/3

 A methodology to help users choose the right tool for custom report development when new reports must be created

This guidebook intends to bridge the gap in SAP R/3 reporting knowledge and training. Users, implementation teams, and consultants who need a deeper understanding of how reporting works in SAP R/3 should find this guidebook useful.

Commonly Used Reports

The second guidebook in the Reporting Made Easy series is Commonly Used Reports, which discusses the most common reports in SAP R/3. Because there are over 3,000 standard reports in SAP R/3, the reports selected for this guidebook only cover some of the most commonly used reports in the SAP R/3.

In this guidebook, you find reports from the following SAP R/3 applications:

 Financial Accounting (FI) reports

 General ledger reports

 Accounts receivable reports

 Accounts payable reports

 Controlling (CO) reports

 Cost center reports

 Profitability analysis reports

 Internal order reports

 Reconciliation reports

 Human Resources (HR) reports

 Sales and Distribution (SD) reports

 Production Planning (PP) reports

 Materials Management (MM) reports

 Plant Maintenance (PM) reports

 Quality Management (QM) reports

 Project System (PS) reports

 Warehouse Management (WM) reports

Who Should Read This Book?

New users – Topics of interest include basics of SAP R/3 reporting, report execution, list displays, saving output to files, printing reports, and more.

New users should also consider the other SAP Reporting Made Easy book, Commonly Used Reports.

Experienced users – Topics of interest include using the tactical approach to reporting, finding and understanding reports, scheduling background processing of reports, and more.

Advanced users – Topics of interest include the tactical approach to reporting and the report tools summary matrix—an easy-to-use matrix to help choose the appropriate report development tool for each application.