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Author Stefan Weidner

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SAP ERP 6.0 EhP7
Global Bike Inc.

Level
Beginner

Focus
SAP ERP 6.0 EhP7

Version
2.40

Last Update
February 2015

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Login Credentials

 Double click on SAP Logon Icon

 Locate and double click on Server ID
ECC604-GBI30-09 or 10
 Enter Client ID 500
 Enter your User ID gbi-### (not case
sensitive)
 Enter your password
 Reset password when prompted
 System Access
 Login into SAP ERP GUI with credentials
given to you
 Write down the access details with you
 About Entering Wrong Passwords
 Where we are
 We are in SAP ERP GUI
 SAP stands for System Applications and Procedures
in Data Processing
 SAP is a company
 ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning
 SAP ERP is a software, one of the products of SAP
 GUI stands for graphical user interface
 SAP ERP GUI is the user layer (user app) for
accessing SAP ERP’s other two layers
 What are other two layers
 Note Down
 System Access Credentials
 System ID
 Client ID
 User ID
 Password
Log on to an SAP system
You should know the
•System
•Client
•Your ID
•Password
SAP Easy Access Menu
SAP Easy Access Menu (cont.)

• Easy Excess Menu is

expandable
• Each of its branch is either a
folder or a transaction
(function)
• Note the icons of transaction
and folder
SAP Menu Bar

Menu bar is context specific so

its contents cannot be
discussed in one screen
 SAP Standard Toolbar

Standard tool bar is

fixed, not context
sensitive, so its content
are important

What every icon on this bar mean?

SAP Application Toolbar

Application tool bar

is context sensitive /
context specific
SAP Status Bar

Status bar is where

SAP talks with you
Recall

 What are the five main components of SAP ERP GUI

window?
 How SAP Talks: Main Types of
SAP Messages

 Information Messages Pressing Enter

more than once is
needed sometimes
 Error Messages to acknowledge
information
messages or to
Warning Messages

override warning
messages
Recall

 What are the three main types of messages that SEP ERP
communicates?
Concept of Transaction in SAP
ERP
 Every action of input, process, or output in the system is a
transaction
 This concept of transaction is wider than the accounting
concept of transaction
 Following are some examples of transaction
 Entering new employee data (input)
 Executing payroll (process)
 Displaying data of an employee, on screen (output)
 Sending an email
 Updating your name in your own user ID
 Etc.
Concept of Transaction in SAP
ERP
 There are three ways of accessing a transaction in SAP
ERP GUI
 Through Easy Access Menu
 Through Favorites, by first adding the items in favorites
 Through transaction code
 Every transaction (function) has a transaction code
Transactions through easy
access menu
View tcodes in easy access
menu
View current tcode on status
bar
Add tcodes to Favorites
Hands-On

 Follow Menu path Logistics  Materials

Management  Material Master  Material 
Create (Special)  Raw Material. What is the tcode
of this operation?
 What is the title of tcode MM02?
 What is the title of tcode VA01?
 Add this tcode in favorites
 Help Functions
There are three types of Helps that SAP
provides
•F1 Help (Built in software help)
•F4 Help (LOV)
•SAP Help Portal (Help.sap.com)
 Help Functions
There are three types of Helps that SAP
provides
For example, in tcode ME21N
•F1 Help (Built in software help)

F1
 Help Functions
There are three types of Helps that SAP
provides
•F4 Help (LOV)
Hands-On

 What are the three level of Helps available in SAP ERP?

 Goto MM02 and see F1 help on Material field

 Goto Tcode ME21N. Use F4 key in Vendor field and see

how many vendors appear with search term = your numeric
SAP ID.
Transaction
SEARCH_SAP_MENU
Recall / Hands-On

 What is the t-code for searching any

transaction?
 Search Menu path and tcode for transaction
containing word “material”
User Profile Settings (SAP
system)
Recall

 What is the menu path to edit your personal details in the

system?
Desktop Shortcut