Sap Business Bydesign : Business User Guide

Tired of relying on ancient documentation and outdated Google results to run SAP Business ByDesign?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 key 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!

• The comprehensive guide to running your business with SAP Business ByDesign
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• Practical instructions for handling financials, supply chain, project, and customer-related tasks

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

Navigation
Walk through the SAP Business ByDesign interface and see how to customize your screens. Learn where to find organization charts, leave requests, timesheets, and budgets―and how to handle key activities in those areas.

Master Data
Establish an organizational structure to facilitate management accounting reporting and workflow approvals. Set up business partners and operational master data warehouse layout, bills of materials, warranties, and more.

Business Processes
Perform your daily tasks for marketing, sales, services, sourcing, purchasing, supply chain planning, warehouse management, project management, finance, and HR.

• Navigation
• Master data
• Customer relationship management (CRM)
• Service management
• Supplier relationship management (SRM)
• Supply chain planning
• Warehouse management
• Project management
• Financial and management accounting
• Human resources (HR)
• Reporting and analytics
• Administration

Caroline Atkinson has been working in the SAP world since 1992, beginning at Siemens UK where she worked with SAP R/2. She then moved to work directly for SAP where she worked with SAP R/3, SAP ERP, and SAP Business One. In 2010, she joined the SAP Business ByDesign team, and developed a love for the solution. In 2012, she cofounded InCloud Solutions, now a Sapphire company, to focus only on SAP Business ByDesign. The company supports a large number of SAP Business ByDesign customersin a variety of industries.

Caroline has a degree in business studies and has worked in the information technology industry for more than 30 years. Her knowledge of business processes and her ability to match them to customer processes has been the key to her success.

Andrew Howell is a director at Illumiti who has more than 14 years of experience implementing SAP solutions, serving more than 40 major corporations that operate in many different industries. Andrew is a senior-level innovation leader and business process engineer who specializes in finance, project management, and supply chain. Andrew has also presented at numerous global conferences and is a regular featured presenter to the Charter Professional Accountants (CPA) of Ontario.

Thomas Kramer is the head of implementation at All for One Group in Germany. Since 2017, he has led a successful team of SAP cloud ERP consultants with more than 100 SAP Business ByDesign implementations in different industries such as professional service providers, discrete manufacturing, and wholesale & distribution.

Laura (Becca) Widner is the project director for SAP Business ByDesign at Illumiti, Inc, a Syntax company. Becca has a BA in business administration (management) from St. Leo University and a MS in accounting from Salve Regina University. She has 35 years of traditional accounting experience, is a CPA, and has previously held positions as a controller, accounting manager, SAP Business ByDesign finance consultant, senior finance solution architect, consulting manager, and project manager. Becca has worked with SAP Business ByDesign for more than nine years and implemented dozens of projects in multiple industries including professional services, mining, distribution, production studios, manufacturing, pharma, engineer to order, and construction.