Training Details

These are the courses specially customized for SAP BW functionals to complement your BW-Functional / ABAP expertise. These are not the regular courses and are usually offered only couple of times a year.

The course teaches the general concepts of the ABAP programming language applicable to all the SAP modules , the major transactions and the business functionality. It is not aimed at participants who want to work in the development area in SAP, but mainly for the general functional consultants who want to have a better understanding of the system and would like to leverage this additional knowledge in their day to day life to help them with debugging, identifying issues, developing better technical specs. It then focusus on the ABAP applications in BI

Duration

• 12-15 Hours

Pre-Requisites

• Good knowledge of any ERP system - preferably SAP
• Experience in SAP-BI or ABAP Programming

Course Contents

1. SAP Overview , Netweaver Architecture and Basics of ABAP programming
2. ABAP Workbench Tools
• Object Navigator
• Workbench Organizer
• Data Dictionary
• Menu Painter
• Screen Painter
3. ABAP Data Dictionary
• Data Elements
• Domain
• Tables
• Views
• Structures
• Check Tables
• Lock objects
4. Basics of ABAP Programming
• Statements
• Declarations
• Selection Screens
• Internal Tables
• Includes
• Subroutines
• Reports
• Function Modules 
5. ABAP Queries
• Introduction to Queries
• Creating Queries to retrieve Personnel, OM or benefits data
• Designing Query layouts
• Authorization for Queries
6. ABAP Interfaces and LSMW
• Kinds of interfaces in ABAP – ALE, EDI , BAPI, Programming etc.
• Introduction to LSMW and using LSMW for data loading applications in SAP.
7. Performance tuning and Debugging
• Runtime Analysis of programs
• ABAP Debugger
• SQL Trace
• Short Dumps
8. BI Programming
• Using Formulae in Transformation rules
• Programming Routines in BI
  • Start Routines
  • End Routines
  • Transformation Routines
• Debugging Routines