25. September 2024 New Spanish-language book release: Primeros pasos con SAP Core Data Services Don’t miss our latest Spanish-language book release Primeros pasos con SAP Core Data Services by Enric Castella. Este práctico manual permite introducirse en el mundo de las vistas CDS de manera gradual y sin necesidad de conocimientos previos. También permite ampliar conocimientos en caso de tener ya nociones sobre vistas SAP CDS.Para poder facilitar la lectura y la adquisición de conocimientos,, este libro está estructurado de forma que se puedan aprender los distintos conceptos de manera práctica y paso a paso, aunque no se posea un sistema SAP. Para ello, se presentan ejercicios de ejemplo y su solución.El libro recopila procedimientos que, aunque puedan estar disponibles en distintas documentaciones oficiales o blogs, acostumbra a estar dispersa, obligando a dedicar tiempo adicional a buscar dichos recursos en caso de dudas. Finalmente, concluye con un resumen de las virtudes de las vistas CDS desde la experiencia del autor.Teoría básica de todos los conceptos detrás de una vista CDS. Una guía con las instrucciones que todo desarrollador debería conocer para utilizar vistas CDS. Ejemplos de cada una de las secciones presentadas a nivel teórico. Escrito en un lenguaje entendible por los distintos perfiles que puedan interactuar con CDS: desarrolladores, funcionales, analistas y usuarios clave.Start reading now!
12. September 2024 New Release: Practical Guide to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Customer Payments We are pleased to announce our latest book release Practical Guide to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Customer Payments by Santosh Kumar and Sachin Kachhawaha. SAP Cloud for customer payments offers a customer-facing portal for selfservice access to account information and accelerates the invoice-to-cash process. This practical guide, written by SAP Cloud for customer payments experts, shares customer experiences and best practices for downloading invoices and credits, handling credit card and Paypal payments, and disputing invoices. Explore SAP Cloud functionality for customer payments and compare and contrast SAP Biller Direct and SAP Cloud for customer payments. Take a closer look at the business processes supported by SAP Cloud for customer payments.Take a detailed look at dispute management, correspondence management, and handling multiple currencies, and delve into Contact Us (SAP Help Portal) and attachments functionalities. Learn how SAP Cloud for customer payments inte- grates with other SAP solutions, including SAP Digital Payments and SAP FI-AR. Examine transactional business use cases and take a closer look at advanced features of SAP Cloud for customer payments, including partial payments and dispute handling. Dive into the administrator console and user management, as well as frontend and backend configuration. Review the options for reporting and monitoring, and get a sneak peek at the future roadmap.-Review reporting and monitoring options-Compare SAP Biller Direct and SAP Cloud for customer payments-Explore integration with SAP Digital Payments and SAP FI-AR-Examine advanced features including partial payments and dispute handlingStart reading now!
9. September 2024 Transportation Settlement in SAP S/4HANA Learn more about Espresso Tutorials’ latest book release Transportation Settlement in SAP S/4HANA by Hariharan Subramanian. Is your company striving to control and reduce transportation costs? Transportation management goes far beyond moving goods from point A to point B. Dive into the complex world of Transportation Settlement with this comprehensive guide, expertly written to introduce you to Transportation Settlement in SAP S/4HANA, highlighting the main processes and functionalities. Explore freight settlement, freight invoicing, forwarding settlement, internal settlement, group logistics, cost distribution and credit memos. Examine the processes and configuration, in detail, for shipper and freight forwarding scenarios, as well as how they are connected. Whether you are a functional consultant, technical expert, or business user, practical examples and use cases will help you understand how to leverage Transportation Settlement. Equip yourself with the knowledge to optimize SAP TM processes effectively. Using screenshots and examples, the author covers:Freight settlement and freight invoicing Forwarding settlement, internal settlement, and group logistics Cost distribution and credit memos Detailed processes and configurationsStart reading now!Author Hariharan Subramanian is a highly experienced consultant with 21 years of experience, primarily in Supply Chain Management. He has spent over a decade working with SAP TM, since the first SAP TM product 6.0 version. He is skilled at end-to-end implementations for SAP Supply Chain Solutions and has worked on many implementation projects for Fortune 500 companies globally. Hari loves to learn new things and is always passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience with others.
10. July 2024 New Spanish-language book release: Estrategias y mejores prácticas en despliegues de SAP S/4HANA Learn more about Espresso Tutorials’ latest Spanish-language book release by Daniel Mateo, Aušra Gustainienė, and Damian Jordan: Estrategias y mejores prácticas en despliegues de SAP S/4HANA.Esta guía, elaborada por expertos, detalla cómo crear estrategias efectivas para desplegar SAP S/4HANA. Servirá de gran ayuda para identificar el mejor enfoque de despliegue para cada organización, profundizando en el planteamiento más común y mostrando cómo desarrollar un modelo global, e incluso cómo gestionar un proyecto de localización. También se analizan las mejores prácticas para estructurar, armonizar y estandarizar procesos y se comparten recomendaciones sobre cómo debería ser una organización de gestión del modelo global, tanto desde una perspectiva empresarial como técnica, y cómo establecer una estrategia de gestión de cambios organizativos. De igual modo, se ahonda en las estructuras organizativas, las actividades, los entregables y las responsabilidades de cada fase del proyecto, con un enfoque práctico en cómo gestionar cambios en un modelo global y cómo tratar la formación y el soporte posterior al despliegue.Guía completa para proyectos de despliegue de SAP S/4HANA Cómo elegir el enfoque adecuado para cada organización Modelo global Directrices para la implementaciónStart reading now!
25. June 2024 New release – Invoice Verification and the GR/IR in SAP S/4HANA Espresso Tutorials is pleased to announce our latest book release Invoice Verification and the GR/IR in SAP S/4HANA by Oona Flanagan. Most organizations receive so many supplier invoices daily that it becomes too difficult to manage without automation to verify that the invoices are correct and can be paid. This book gives you an in-depth look at how invoice verification works in SAP S4/HANA. Explore how different posting types are made, and how to monitor and make corrections when there is no exact three-way match between the purchasing document, the goods or services receipt, and the invoice. Learn how to review blocked invoices so that suppliers can be paid, as well as ensure that the general ledger accurately reflects what has been received, invoiced, and what should be accrued. Explore opportunities for streamlining your invoice verification process. Take a closer look at new functionality available with SAP S/4HANA and Fiori, as well as how some processes have been simplified. Walk through the invoice verification stages using Fiori and other apps. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, the author brings readers quickly up to speed on invoice verification and the GR/IR in SAP S/4HANA.Invoice verification process in SAP S/4HANA Tools for GR/IR reconciliation Configuration settings that affect the invoice verification process Period end processes and reportingStart reading now! Author Oona Flanagan is an Anglo-Irish freelance SAP FICO and SAP S/4HANA consultant, as well as a qualified accountant and published author. She has over 20 years of global implementation experience across multiple industries (pharma, fashion, food, beverages, consumer goods, media, packaging, shipping containers, banking, and transportation), as well as many years accounting experience. Oona loves languages and has worked in multiple countries during her SAP career. Oona owns her own company, Jazzmore Solutions Limited, has an MBA, and is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants and the British Computer Society.
23. May 2024 New release – Integrated Business Processes in SAP S/4HANA Espresso Tutorials is pleased to announce our newest book release Integrated Business Processes in SAP S/4HANA by Ernst Schulten. This book provides a compact overview of how you can use SAP S/4HANA to map and efficiently control business processes in a company. It gives you an insight into digitalization in these areas. The presentation follows the content of the course that prepares students from universities and colleges of applied sciences as well as prospective SAP consultants for the internationally recognized SAP industry certification exam TS410. Take a deep dive into the processes in internal and external finance, human resources, purchasing, production and sales, maintenance and project management. You will gain an insight into the value creation processes of the financial supply chain. You will also find out what advantages and opportunities new developments in the area of SAP software offer: the SAP S/4HANA system with the in-memory database HANA, the SAP Fiori apps, and SAP Mobile Start.Introduction to SAP S/4HANA Fundamental central concepts Simple examples with practical applications Preparation for the official SAP TS410 certification examStart reading now! Author Ernst Schulten holds a degree in business administration and business informatics. As part of his daily work, he connects institutions with cooperation partners worldwide and provides a comprehensive network as well as scholarships for young talents. His tasks include the setup and customizing of SAP systems in companies, research and teaching, as well as the technical and continuous preparation of SAP case studies, simulations, and business games. Worldwide, he conducts SAP-related courses at universities, universities of applied sciences, teaching institutions, and companies. In over 20 years, he has prepared a large number of people for certification to use SAP ERP and S/4HANA systems. Today, Ernst Schulten regularly holds the TS410 course as a freelance SAP trainer.
22. May 2024 SAP BI Unveiled: Understanding SAP’s BI Portfolio Check out our latest SAP video tutorial release by NDZ Anthony – SAP BI Unveiled: Understanding SAP’s BI Portfolio. Start watching now!Become a well-rounded SAP BI Analyst by learning all there is to know about the SAP BI Landscape!You may have wondered:What’s the best path for me in my SAP analytics journey? There’s a plethora of tools in SAP’s BI portfolio; which do I start with? BW? HANA? Datasphere? Job titles like ‘SAP Analytics Consultant,’ SAP BW Consultant, and SAP Hana Consultant are some of the hottest careers in SAP tech; what certifications should I take to further my technical career as an SAP business analyst?This course explores: SAP Analytics Cloud SAP BW SAP Datasphere SAP BOBJ SAP Data Intelligence SAP HANA SAP Embedded Analytics, and more.Author Ndz Anthony is a tech blogger, a part-time artist, and, most notably, a passionate BI instructor. He hails from the showery south of Nigeria, the garden city, and has his first degree in computer engineering. Ndz boasts over three years in the data industry and is a 7X certified SAP | Snowflake Consultant. He is adept at deploying and managing SAP data technologies such as SAP BW, SAP HANA, SAC, and Embedded Fiori Analytics.
21. May 2024 New SAP book release: Practical Guide to SAP Entitlement Management with SAP S/4HANA Espresso Tutorials is pleased to announce the publication of Practical Guide to SAP Entitlement Management with SAP S/4HANA by Santosh Kumar and Kai Zhang. SAP Entitlement Management with SAP S/4HANA streamlines and automates entitlement management processes and operations, from initial modelling and full lifecycle management to reporting. This practical guide introduces SAP Entitlement to aspiring consultants and to users who are supporting new implementations., and covers functionality and integration points, and where this solution fits in the quote-to-cash process. Explore entitlement models and how to set up entitlement rules. Learn how to integrate entitlement management with other SAP solutions, including SAP Sales and Distribution (SD), SAP Subscription Order Management (SAP S/4SOM), and SAP Subscription Billing. Walk through business use case examples for split and merge entitlement sce- narios, as well as a bundled entitlement scenario. Be guided, step-by-step, on how to configure SAP Entitlement Management, as well as deployment options. Gain an understanding of how background jobs, business events, monitoring, and migration functionality work. Take a closer look at advanced features such as merging and splitting. Learn how to create and change entitlements, and also how to split and merge entitlements. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, the authors bring readers quickly up to speed on SAP Entitlement Management.SAP S/4HANA Entitlement Management models and functionality Configuration and deployment options Creating and changing entitlements Splitting and merging entitlementsStart reading now!Author Santosh Kumar is an SAP Solution Architect with extensive experience in SAP Entitlement Management, FSCM (CFM), Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) and its integration with SAP and non- SAP systems, in multiple industries. He has worked on many SAP implementations in full life-cycle projects and has provided remote support in a variety of roles.Author Kai Zhang is currently leading an Order to Cash CoE team of 20 experts for SAP MaxAttention. He has more than 18 years of experience with SAP Order to Cash technical/functional tasks, and has worked with some of the largest SAP installations in the world. Kai is an expert in SAP performance optimization and tuning, root cause analysis and scalability improvements.
15. April 2024 New Release: First Steps in SAP S/4HANA Universal Parallel Accounting by Janet Salmon Espresso Tutorials is pleased to announce our latest book release First Steps in SAP S/4HANA Universal Parallel Accounting by Janet Salmon.Universal Parallel Accounting (UPA) is perhaps the most significant innovation since the introduction of the universal journal in SAP S/4HANA. The business requirements behind UPA will be familiar to anyone who has worked in a mul- tinational organization. What is new is the architecture—ledger and currency settings are used consistently, across all financial applications within the organization. If the universal journal was the single document that combined information from the general ledger, asset accounting, controlling, material ledger, and margin analysis, then Universal Parallel Accounting takes the idea a step further by providing consistent ledger and currency settings across all finance applications. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Universal Parallel Accounting and explains how it is different from previous approaches. Troubleshoot the challenges of working with multiple accoun- ting principles, fiscal year calendars, and currencies in subsidiaries, alongside the common accounting principle, fiscal year calendar, and group currency. Take a closer look at ledgers, accounting principles, and fiscal year variants. Explore key changes to asset accounting, overhead accounting, and inventory accounting. Compare and contrast the approach to calculating WIP and vari- ances—instead of calculating at period-end closing, they are calculated with each goods movement and confirmation. Learn more about the new way to recognize revenue. This book expertly guides readers through key updates to parallel accounting in SAP.Introduction Parallel Accounting in SAP S/4HANA Use Cases for Universal Parallel Accounting How Universal Parallel Accounting differs from Previous Approaches Explore key changes to asset accounting, overhead accounting, and inventory accountingAuthor Janet Salmon is currently the end-to-end process owner for Financial Planning & Analysis at SAP SE in Walldorf. She has accompanied many developments in the Controlling components of SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA. Janet joined SAP AG as a translator in 1992, having gained a degree in Modern and Medieval Lan-guages from Downing College, Cambridge and a post-graduate qualification in Interpreting and Translating from the University of Bath. Janet became a tech-nical writer for the Product Costing area in 1993 and a product manager in 1996.Start reading now!
9. April 2024 New release – Practical Guide to SAP CO-PC (Product Cost Controlling) in SAP S/4HANA Don’t miss the latest Espresso Tutorials release Practical Guide to SAP CO-PC (Product Cost Controlling) in SAP S/4HANA 2nd edition by Tanya Duncan.Because of its complex integration, Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC) has often been regarded as the most challenging module in SAP ERP. In this 2nd edition, the most important concepts, business processes, and configuration settings have been updated to cover SAP S/4HANA, including how Material Ledger has evolved in S/4HANA. There is also a new chapter on sales order costing. By concentrating only on the essentials, this book can be easily used as a supplementary guide for readers who are implementing or supporting SAP CO-PC. Transaction and configuration screenshots have been included to illustrate processes and concepts covered in this book, and Fiori app names and GUI transaction codes have also been provided. In addition, this guide examines the integration of CO-PC with other modules, and offers helpful tips to consider during implementation.Introduction to value flows in SAP S/4HANA Controlling Step-by-step examples Configuration for make-to- stock and make-to-order costing Detailed month-end closing processesAuthor Tanya Duncan is a Senior Manager with Deloitte Consulting LLP. She leads finance transformation projects enabled by SAP S/4HANA for consumer pro- ducts and life sciences clients. Tanya is the author of several SAP book titles and earned her MBA in Finance from Pepperdine University. She also holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from Grand Valley State University.Start reading now!
7. March 2024 New Release: Introduction to SAP S/4HANA Don’t miss the latest Espresso Tutorials release – Introduction to SAP S/4HANA by Prof. Dr. Bernd Scheuermann, Prof. Dr. Christian Drumm, and Stefan Weidner.This easy-to-understand introduction to SAP S/4HANA guides you through the central processes in sales, purchasing and procurement, finance, production, and warehouse management using the model company Global Bike. Familiarize yourself with the basics of business administration, the relevant organizational data, master data, and transactional data, as well as a selection of core business processes in SAP. Using practical examples and tutorials, you will soon become an SAP S/4HANA professional!Tutorials and exercises for beginners, advanced users, and experts make it easy for you to practice your new knowledge. The prerequisite for this book is access to an SAP S/4HANA client with Global Bike version 4.1. Business fundamentals and processes in the SAP system Sales, purchasing and procurement, production, finance, and warehouse management Tutorials at different qualification levels, exercises, and recap of case studies Includes extensive download material for students, lecturers, and professors Learn more!
25. January 2024 What is New in SAP Global Trade Services, edition for SAP HANA Curious what’s new in SAP GTS? The most recent version of SAP’s GTS solution was released in Q4 of 2021, but many customers have only recently become aware of its availability. Don’t miss this video tutorial presented by SAP’s Linda McKee available exclusively via the SAP Learning Platform to learn about this current GTS release, including:Overview of the main differences and innovations in GTS, edition for SAP HANA compared to the classic GTS 11 Learn about the roadmap for GTS, including what is planned for release in 2023Watch now!