SAP errors on missing profit centre on a line item in journals

Error:  Balancing field “Profit Center” in line item not filled

Document splitting causes this issue. So if you have document splitting activated you will get this issue  with entering journals in the General Ledger.

If one of the lines in a journal is pointing to a  different profit centre than the rest of the lines in the journal  the GST/VAT cannot determine which profit  centre to attach itself to.

There is no way to specify how the GST/VAT is posted in the journal.

To work around this, you need to split the  journal into two separate journals one for each profit centre.

Account for personnel number is not unique

This SAP error message occurs when SAP transaction PRRW cannot post
a travel expense because there are two vendor master records referencing the
same personnel number.

Solution

Find the duplicate vendor master record and remove the
personnel number.

Transaction: SE16N

Enter table LFB1

Enter the personnel number in FR. Vendor field

Execute

When the result displays two rows these are duplicate
records

Go to transaction FK02 Change Vendor to correct the
duplication

Remove the vendor number from one of the vendor master
records.

Run transaction PRRW again to post the travel expense.

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How to Commence Your SAP Career

Many people already have the right skills to commence a career in SAP without even knowing it.

If you are employed in administration, accounting or finance and use another ERP system you already have the conceptual knowledge, skills and experience to be able to make a successful transition to using the SAP system. SAP works the same as most other ERP software.

If you perform any of these computerised functions you have the conceptual knowledge and skills to start learning SAP.

  • establish customer accounts
  • record transactions for product and service sales
  • perform banking functions
  • order goods and services
  • record inventory movements
  • invoice customers
  • process customer collections
  • process vendor invoices and payments
  • sales reporting
  • staff recruitment and establishment
  • payroll processing

If you currently work with computerised administration one of the easiest ways to learn SAP is to apply for a new job at a company that use the SAP software. There are over 100,000 implementations of SAP worldwide so there are plenty of opportunities available. First you will need to acquire a SAP training course to learn the basics of SAP. I recommend a home based study course as these are inexpensive and convenient. Add your SAP knowledge to your resume and at your job interview you can inform the employer you have completed a SAP training course.

Once in your new job start learning as much as you can about the software. Read the company’s user procedure manuals. Talk to other staff and involve yourself in other parts of the business to learn more. Once you have some experience using SAP you can apply for higher level jobs and move up the career ladder. After a few years you will be ready to make the move to SAP consulting and earn a high income. Maybe you can start your own SAP consulting business.

Visit sap job websites by googling “sap careers” or “sap jobs”.

A human resources career is one way to break into the SAP career market. As the HR module is one of the most widely implemented SAP modules there are plenty of career opportunities for individuals with human resources experience to specialise as a SAP HR professional. If you have knowledge and experience with employee establishment, organisational management, recruitment, performance appraisal, remuneration and payroll you may well have the right skill set to transition to a SAP HR consultant.

What About SAP Training?

If you are new to SAP it is recommended to download a trial version of the SAP software and acquire a home study course.  This is the best and most affordable way to learn SAP. Start with a basics course, next learn the FICO (finance & controlling) module followed by the SD (sales & distribution) module. Later you may want to learn a more specialised module such as MM, HR, PS, ABAP etc.

For more information about how to learn SAP and SAP training please visit http://saptrainingcourse.net.

How to Create an Employee in SAP

Personnel procedures, such as hiring an employee, organizational reassignment, or an employee leaving the company, are represented by separate personnel actions in Personnel Administration section of the HR module.

Each personnel action contains the infotypes for which you have to enter data for the action in question and displays these infotypes for you to process.

The Hiring personnel action provides all of the infotypes that are necessary to guarantee the correct administration of the employee, payroll, time management and other personnel processes.

Integration with Organizational Management

If the Personnel Administration component is integrated with the Organizational Management component, you can link the data on the employee’s organizational assignment from Personnel Administration to the data on the position from Organizational Management. This has practical consequences for the Organizational Reassignment personnel action.  If the position changes when the employee experiences an organizational reassignment, it often results in other changes to the employee’s organizational assignment data.

Use transaction code PA40 into the Transaction code field

Enter Personnel No

Personnel Number Assignment

When an employee is hired, he or she is assigned one personnel number. You can either assign this personnel number (external number assignment) yourself, or it can be assigned automatically by the system (internal number assignment).

Enter From date (the start date of the personnel action)

Choose the hiring action type by clicking and highlighting the line

Click Execute

Enter Personnel area

Enter Employee group

Enter Employee subgroup

Click save

The record has been created and you are taken to the Create Organisational Assignment screen.

On the Create Organizational Assignments screen, complete the following fields:

Subarea

Contract

The contract can be used to establish the employee’s standard charge rate for billing customers.

Click save

The record has been created and you are taken to the Create Personal data screen.

Enter Start Date

Enter Form of Address

Enter Last Name

Enter First Name

Select the Sex of the employee

Click save

 

The record has been created and you are taken to the Create Planned Working Time

Confirm default information is accurate. Change if required.

Click save

The record has been created and you are taken to the Create Travel Privileges

Enter Company code

Enter Business Area

Enter Cost Center

Click save

The record has been created and you are taken to the Create Communication screen

Enter the employee ID/number (this must be consistent with the Windows log in ID)

Click save

The record has been created and you are taken to the Create Timesheet Defaults screen

Enter Controlling Area (defaults)

Enter Sender Cost Center (this must be the same as the Cost Centre in Travel Privileges)

Enter the Activity Type (if required)

Click save to save your entries.

The personnel record is created.

What is SAP Basis?

The SAP Basis module is concerned with controlling the background processes of SAP. Some of the main functions are establishing user security, user authorization, establishing client environments, transport management between environments, spool administration, alert monitoring, database administration, patch and upgrade administration, background jobs, administrative utilities and online service and support.

A typical BASIS (ECC 6.0) Course Curriculum would look like the following:

Introduction to ERP, SAP and SAP Terminology

  • SAP Business Solution maps, and Hardware Sizing
  • SAP Architecture
  • SAP System Landscape
  • Difference between 2 system, 3 systems, and multi systems Landscape
  • Different Landscapes applied in the industry.
  • System Central Instance, Database, and Dialog instance
  • Dispatcher and Message Services

 

Implementation Phase

  • Project Preparation
  • Business Blue print
  • Realization
  • Go-Live Preparation
  • Post Go-Live support

 

SAP Installation

  • Installation procedures on Windows & Unix
  • Hardware and software requirements
  • SAP System naming conventions
  • Difference between IDES, and Non-IDES
  • Overview of SAP servers, Disaster servers
  • Installation differences between 4.6B,4.6C, 4.7EE,ECC5.0 and ECC6.0
  • Standalone installation, and central system installation
  • SAP Software kit
  • Post Installation Process
  • SAP Licensing (OS level and SAP level)
  • R/3 Directory Structure (Unix and Windows)
  • Importance of Kernel Directory and commands
  • Important Unix commands

 

User & Roles

  • SAP R/3 Security Introduction
  • Components of security
  • Introduction to security parameters
  • Introduction to user master record, architecture
  • Creating single and mass users
  • Maintaining & Working with user groups
  • Role maintenance using the Profile Generator
  • Authorization Objects and object classes
  • Authorization Concepts
  • User Authorizations (In-depth explanation on SUIM and SU53)

 

Client Administration

  • Client Administration tools
  • Potential clients in the servers
  • Local Client Copy, Remote Client Copy and Client Transport
  • Client Export/Import
  • Usage of R3Trans program to perform client administration.
  • Troubleshooting Client administration issues
  • Client Refresh

 

Change and Transport System (CTS)

  • Introduction to CTS, Transport layers and routes
  • Transport Management System (TMS)
  • SAP System Group
  • Configuration of TMS
  • Managing Development Classes
  • Creating, transporting Transport requests
  • Working with transport requests
  • Analyzing TPs
  • Using R3Trans and TP programs
  • Differences between conditional and unconditional transport

 

Computer Center Management Systems (CCMS)

  • Introduction to CCMS
  • Working with CCMS Control Panel
  • Working with Operation Modes
  • CCMS Monitors
  • Alert Monitors
  • Analyzing Alert monitors and performance tuning
  • Maintaining the opmode set calendar

 

Spool Administration

  • Elements of printing system
  • Managing Spool Requests
  • Working with Spool servers, maintaining logical and roll over spool servers
  • Connecting printers to the Operating system spool
  • SAPLPD driver
  • List of useful transactions in the spool system, and troubleshooting
  • Working with Spool objects

 

SAP DBA and BR* tools

  • Introduction to SAP DBA
  • Important tables, objects and their roles in SAP
  • SAP DBA Command mode
  • Configuring SAP DBA
  • Tablespace administration
  • Reorganizing database
  • Database backup, restore, and recovery
  • Different backup strategies in real-time

 

Patch Management

  • An in-depth view on OCS
  • Checking the patch version
  • Usage of Support Package Manager, and SAP Add-on Installation tools
  • Working with SPAU to identify the changed programs, and objects
  • Downloading and installing patches
  • Troubleshooting various issues with patch management
  • Kernel upgrade

 

Online Service & Support (SAP Market Place)

  • Notes assistant
  • Creating Customer Messages
  • Registering License, Developer and SSCR Keys
  • Download (SWDC)
  • Open Router Connections, DEV,QAS, and PRD
  • Applying Router S.N.C

 

Background jobs

  • Introduction to background jobs.
  • Creating a Background job (Manual and wizard)
  • Copying, Changing the job status
  • Moving a job and Working with different options
  • Different job classes.
  • Splitting a job into multiple jobs.
  • Analyzing the job logs.
  • Creating job variants, and working with background jobs.

 

Administrative utilities

  • Sending system messages
  • Locking/unlocking transactions
  • Monitoring work processes and SAP Instances
  • Monitoring and managing user sessions
  • SAP Business Workplace
  • Overview of mysap.com
  • Daily, and Periodic Activities on the servers

What is SAP?

SAP is the world’s largest business software company and a world leader in the areas of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Over 100,000 corporate customers & governments have implemented the software to run their day-to-day business transactions and processes.

How To Download And Read SAP Notes

SAP Notes are a set of instructions on how to solve any problems or remove known errors from SAP Systems. They include a description of the symptoms, the cause of the error, and the SAP Release and Support Package level in which the error occurs.

Depending on the type of error, an SAP Note may also include:

  • Workarounds
  • Descriptions of how to correct repository objects in the ABAP workbench, known as correction instructions
  • Links to Support Packages that solve the problem

You can access SAP Notes both from the SAP Service Marketplace and SAPNet – R/3 Frontend.

The Note Assistant can automatically implement only SAP Notes that have correction instructions.

Important: Read the SAP Note carefully before you use the Note Assistant to implement it. The SAP Note can contain prerequisites, interactions, and references to post processing activities (making changes to a table, for example) that you must take into consideration when you implement it.

To download SAP Notes, you can execute transaction code tcode = snote to get the SAP Note Assistant.

Select GoTo menu ->Download SAP Note

Enter in the SAP Note number you want to download and click on the Execute button (F8)

After the download is completed, you will see the status confirmation on your status bar.

Now you can check out the new SAP Note you just downloaded.

Double click the SAP Note to see the content.

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