Unit Conversion in SAP

Sometimes there comes a situation where the conversion from one unit to another may become necessary. One such situation could be to convert the order unit in the purchase order to the base unit measure of the material.

Unit of Measure

The usage of the function module ‘MC_UNIT_CONVERSION’ could ease the job. The user must supply the source unit of meausre and the target unit of measure.

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Saving Custom Layouts in SAP ALV

When using a progam or report dealing in ALV, user sometimes does not get the proper display at the time of output in ALV. The reason is non-customising of the layout by the user or the default layout set by other user.

Following process will help you to store your own customized layout.

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Making Table Data Transportable in SAP

Some clients wants data in the table to be maintained directly onto Live server whereas some wants is to be transportable across systems/landscape for maintaining data consistancy.

Table Maintenance Generator is used for this. The process can be applied to directly to the table or by using view.

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Creating RFC Destinations

We need RFC destination to connect either to non-SAP or SAP data externally from our existing system. To make other systems available for the access, we need to provide an RFC destination in our SAP such that it accesses the external system.

To summarise you can communicate via RFC:

1. R/3 -> R/3
2. legacy -> R/3
3. R/3 -> legacy

Visual Basic Calling SAP – using BAPI Calls

BAPI is a useful resource provided by SAP though which we can communicate with SAP also from external envirnment / sources.  The following code shows the example of how to call BAPI externally, although SAP authentication for the user is done.

The example is a program developed in Visual Basic which I developed in my learning phase. It gives an idea about the hierarchy that needs to be followed when calling BAPI.

The example consists of three BAPI calls namely, for PO, GRN and Sales Order creation. The code is also available for download, but may require a bit tweaking.

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