SAP Network Weblogs

Warranty Processing via the new Automotive Dealer Portal

Posted: 22 Apr 2009 02:34 AM PDT

The new Automotive Dealer Portal made by SAP includes: Vehicle Sales Management, Spare Part Sales and Warranty Management. The new Automotive Dealer Portal typically is hosted by the OEM or importer for the dealer or service provider as a portal web front-end. This blog talks about the third component, Warranty Management within the new Dealer Portal. Warranty process challenges are discussed, how the Dealer Portal helps address these challenges, solution details and benefits are given. Another blog will go into functional details soon.

The cameras are rolling, is yours?

Posted: 22 Apr 2009 12:31 AM PDT

It's quite amazing how much you learn about your fellow "co-workers" when they take a few seconds to share something about themselves, I'm still amazed...

My 92 seconds

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:22 PM PDT

Craig asked the community members to present themselves in small videos of 30+ seconds length. I have already reserved 74 months for watching the videos of 1.6 million community members non-stop, and I am sure so have you. You may start here.

Earth, Wind, Fire: The Many Faces of "Green"

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 08:01 PM PDT

I'm not thrilled to hear about an "invite-only Green IT" community. You'd think I might be one of the first to applaud this effort, but several parts of the earth, wind and fire drama leave me icy.

Partner delivered Enterprise Service (PdES) Architecture Series: Introduction (Part 1)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 06:29 PM PDT

Introducing the Partner delivered Enterprise Service (PdES) Architecture Series.

Aligning Sales Territories to Enhance Sales Productivity: Improving Customer Relationships in a Tough Economy

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:49 PM PDT

There are many ways for a company to improve customer relationships in a turbulent economy -- especially within its sales organization. Improving alignment of sales territories is an important area for sales executives to consider in these difficult times -- and software tools can help achieve optimal territory alignment.

Me and my 60-something seconds

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 01:26 PM PDT

Today I followed Craig's call for short video introductions for SDN. Here's mine.

OO Programming with ABAP Objects: Encapsulation

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:43 AM PDT

This weblog is the second in a series on how to develop object-oriented programs in ABAP Objects. This entry describes the concepts of encapsulation and implementation hiding as they relate to OO development.

Is the search help (F4) from the storage location not working in transaction ME51N)?

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 09:31 AM PDT

This blog explains how the search help (F4) from the storage location in the transaction ME51N works.

E-SIGNATURE: Migrating from 4.6 to ECC 6.0

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 08:46 AM PDT

Hi All, Through this blog you can know about the new interfaces, methods and transactions to be used for E-Signature while migrating from 4.6 to ECC 6.0

CRM & Social Web: Evolving Customer Management to Customer Engagement

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 07:13 AM PDT

First of a series of posts on the impact of Social Web on CRM applications.