Configuration/Customizing

Main Process

 

Tools

• Implementation Guide (IMG)

Implementation Guide

• Is the tool and guide for the configuration of the SAP system
• Is the most well-known and widely used customizing tool in SAP
• Leads the implementation project team through all required customizing settings
• Provides the system configuration documentation necessary for all required steps

Tools

• Cross-System Viewer

Cross-System Viewer

• Compares settings in two separate systems or settings in two clients of one single system
• Can also be used to compare settings in an SAP system with settings stored in a BC set, in an IMG project, or in a transport request
• Is used to create a comparison and then analyze the results
• Can run a general comparison for status checks
• Can run a detailed comparison for identifying differences

Tools

• Customizing-Scout

Customizing-Scout

• Ensures that customizing settings are harmonized
• Compares customizing objects in a system in an SAP system landscape with customizing objects in SAP R/3
• Transfers customizing from one fully configured system to another empty system
• Updates customizing in several systems at the same time whenever customizing in a reference system is changed
• Configures training, demo, and test systems quickly with the initial distribution of customizing
• Synchronizes SAP R/3, SAP CRM, and SAP APO systems to ensure that cross-component business processes run smoothly

Tools

• Customizing Distribution

Customizing Distribution

• You often have to make selected customizing settings match in various systems within a system landscape.
• You can use the Customizing Distribution to synchronize selected customizing settings in a source system (e.g., SAP R/3) with the customizing settings in the target systems (e.g., an SAP CRM system).
• The Customizing Distribution synchronizes the customizing settings when implementing or updating a system landscape. Before you synchronize customizing settings, you can compare them with another tool, the Customizing-Scout.

Tools

• Tools for client and entity copy

Tools for Client and Entity Copy

• These tools ensure the quality of the system landscape.
• Project teams are always up-to-date.
• Project teams have the necessary flexibility for the administration of their transports.

Tools

• Transport System

Transport System

• The Change and Transport System (CTS) is a tool that helps you to organize development projects in the ABAP Workbench and in Customizing, and then transport the changes between the SAP systems in your system landscape.
• The Transport Organizer provides you with functions for organizing software development projects. It is designed to support projects of all sizes, whether they are carried out centrally or in a distributed environment.
• You can organize, perform, and monitor transports between your SAP systems using the Transport Management System (TMS).

User actions at the operating system level are no longer necessary, since all the necessary information and functions are mapped in the SAP system

Tools

• Business Configuration Set

Business Configuration Set

• Is a set of customizing settings
• Grouped according to logical, business management criteria
• For documentary, quality assurance and re-use purposes
• Independent of the original customizing tables/views
• Accessible across the system landscape
• Alias "customizing"

Services

• Preconfigured Solution Templates, Smart Forms Unit

Preconfigured Solutions

• SAP offers preconfigured systems (PCS or SAP Best Practices) for certain industries. These systems contain special industry information for typical structures in an industry and the corresponding default values for these structures in the SAP system
• A PCS consists of the following elements:

An industry-specific solution

An industry-specific SAP client

Industry-specific customizing data

• A PCS also contains test data and industry-specific documentation. You can use this test data to try out examples of processes and scenarios. The documentation gives you detailed descriptions of the process models. For more information about Preconfigured Systems, see the SAP Service Marketplace: sap.service.com/bestpractices.