SAP Basis Consultant

Location: US-Multiple Locations

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the installation, technical administration, tuning, and monitoring of SAP ERP (& related) software including R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0 & 6.0, BW, XI 3.0/PI 7.0 & Solution Manager. Also Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server implementations on Windows platform
  • Expertise in providing primary support for SAP R/3 related systems
  • Apply support packages, and add-ons
  • Provide 24 hour support for mission critical system software, possible on call schedule
  • Effectively communicate and interact with technical personnel in solving complex business and technical problems
  • Ability to complete tasks within critical timelines and work well in a high-energy environment
  • Prepare status reports and attend status meetings
  • Research and provide directions for SAP software corrections including SAP OSS notes and SAP support packages
  • Manage the SAP router configuration for SAP support
  • Design and document security administration policies and procedures (SOP) for the production environment and train the Helpdesk to perform basic operations tasks on SAP
  • Creation of client landscapes and client copies
  • Create and maintain RFC connections

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SAP Interface Developer

Location: US – Multiple Locations

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Senior PI/XI developer with leadership experience
  • Develop, maintain and support interface scenarios
  • Manage technical design and functional specifications for interface scenarios, identify user requirements, use critical thinking to analyze & suggest alternative designs
  • Utilizes various methods and processes to determine requirements and design formal solutions in response to those requirements
  • Develop test cases, conduct informal and formal testing and document test results appropriately
  • Utilize technical expertise with various interfacing technologies, including IDOCs, BAPIs, ALE, EDI and applications such as XI, WebSphere DataStage TX (formerly known as Mercator), Gentran, MQ-Series, Seeberger, iWay etc.
  • Provide essential knowledge transfer to junior consultants and provide ad hoc guidance
  • Prepare status reports for project management and attend status meetings
  • Provide guidance and expertise with SAP’s development and integration technologies including: ALE design and implementation; transport layer, environment planning, upgrades, and risk mitigation
  • work with the Basis team and SAP on all aspects of system builds

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SAP ABAP Developer

Location: US – Virginia

Required Skills Summary

  • Strong ABAP skills with significant version experience in SAP 4.6c and higher
  • At least 5 full lifecycle SAP implementations
  • Full understanding of the SAP transport process
  • High level understanding of business processes in multiple SAP functional modules, e.g. FI, SD, MM, PP, HR, PS, PM, WM
  • Experience with 3rd party applications within SAP, e.g. Sabrix, Vistex, Vertex, etc
  • 7+ years of experience in SAP ABAP Programming is required
  • Experience in IS-Retail , Proficiency with ALE/IDocs, including error handling.
  • Experience to IS-Transportation with BOBF (Business Object Framework for ABAP)
  • Knowledge of Web-Dynpro ABAP and Lean Order Management (WEB UI for Sales Order)
  • Must Be ABAP certified Consultant
  • Willing to relocate to Williamsburg, Virginia

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SAP MM/IM/WM Functional Consultant

Start Date: Immediately

Rate: DOE

To apply, email your resume to Jane Robitaille

Key Requirements:

  • Overall knowledge (business process, configuration, integration) of SAP MM purchasing, replenishment, goods movement processes, including purchasing requisition and purchase order processing
  • Hands-on experience with stock transport order (STO) processing
  • Hands-on experience with plant receiving processes, cycle counting, physical inventory, miscellaneous inventory adjustments, movement types
  • Integration of MM with SD and WM, including outbound delivery processing
  • Multi-company code experience
  • Multi-currency experience
  • Intercompany processing
  • SAP Retail experience, including reporting and merchandising, desired

Additional Traits:

  • Ability to learn quickly and assimilate current processes
  • Proven analysis and problem solving skills
  • Persistence and determination
  • Good communication skills

Undergraduate Software Programming Internship (Indianapolis, IN)

DataXstream is seeking to retain one or more undergraduate interns to help us develop and support a variety of software products.

The Company

DataXstream is a consulting firm that specializes in SAP. Specifically, we consider ourselves to be the foremost experts in SAP integration. We have deep and wide experience writing, teaching, architecting, developing, and supporting commercial applications using a multitude of SAP-related technologies. We are extremely proud of our 100% project success track-record and our 100% referenceability.

The Opportunity

We are looking for sharp, energetic, programmers to help us develop and support multiple Java and .NET based utilities used by our customers. Candidates will be requested to perform tasks along the entire software utility development lifecycle: design, prototype, develop, unit test, package, and support. Some utilities are to be written in Java; some are to be written using C#. This is an opportunity to come in and take charge and make a difference…this is resume building stuff.
In addition, we believe that in a B2B environment like ours, software development need to be tightly aligned with strong feedback loops so we all can learn what works and what does not. That said, we may ask you to take on some client facing work.

  • 15-20 hours a week. $12/hour.
  • Most work would be done at our offices in Indianapolis, IN but some work could be done remotely.
  • Could lead to a full time position upon graduation.

Requirements & Preferences for the Position

  • Required proficiency in C# (.NET) and/or Java
  • Strong preference for individuals in the Computer Science (CS), Management Information Systems (MIS), Information Technology (IT), or equivalent program
  • Good team player, and yet also able to work without a lot of supervision.
  • Excellent written and oral communications skills, and evidence of strong creativity.
  • Strong relational database and SQL skills
  • Web development experience is a plus
  • Knowledge and experience with SAP ABAP is a plus

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SAP IDOCs for Customer Number with different Sales Organizations to different External Partnerships

Have you ever implemented an outbound  EDI process from SAP for a single customer number where the customer has multiple EDI trading by Sales Organization or Division?  It can be done.  In order to accomplish this you will need to create separate output types for each Sales Organization/Division and then set up the Access Sequence/Output Determination in order to create the IDOC for each partnership.  You can then use the Message Variant and/or Message Function fields of the Partner Profile to differentiate between the two Sales Organizations/Divisions.  Finally, you would set up your EDI Mapping to look at the Partner Profile fields in order to route it to the correct partnership.  Let’s take a closer look at this process.

Let’s say that Customer 15 in your SAP system buys products from your company.  It sends inbound EDI Orders to you using three different partner IDs because they have 3 internal divisions and they want all transactions to be separate.  You want to keep all sales data for this customer under one customer number in your SAP system and just separate them by a different division.  You are required to send out EDI invoices to this customer, but they must go to the correct EDI Partner ID.  Let’s say you would normally use the Standard SAP Output Type RD00 and  Access Sequence 0003 (Sales Org, Distribution Channel, Division, Customer Number) for producing your INVOIC IDOCs. [Read more...]

SAP EDI EDPAR Table Walkthrough – How to Cross Reference External Customer Number to SAP Customer Number (Part 2)

Let’s say you are receiving EDI ANSI X12 850 Sales Orders from you customers that need to be uploaded into your SAP System using the ORDERS05 IDOC.  Most customers will have their own internal customer numbers that they send in their EDI transmissions to represent the Sold-To and Ship-To partners.

How do you convert these external customer numbers into your internal SAP customer numbers?

Some may hard code these conversions into their EDI maps.  This approach can be very high maintenance as customers can add new ship-to locations or reorganize their internal numbers which would require changes to your maps.

Others may set up a cross reference table within their EDI translation table to perform the conversion.  This works well at times, but then you are at the mercy of your EDI group to update the table with any new additions or changes to existing entries. [Read more...]

Web Dynpro Basics: Context and Binding

This is for those who are new to Web Dynpro programming. Here is an explanation of how to set up a Web Dynpro application using the context and binding the context to User Interface (UI) elements of the application. This is only a basic explanation to help set a foundation for understanding Web Dynpro programming. The 3 basic elements of a Web Dynpro application are windows, views and the context. The window is simply a container for a view. To assign a view to a window expand the views and windows under the section labeled ‘Object Name.’ Double click on a window and then drag and drop the view into the window. [Read more...]

How DataXstream and SAP Retail can Improve your Business

Retail Business owners, have you ever wondered how SAP Retail can help your business? Let our partners at SAP show you what we can do for you.

At DataXstream, we create tailored solutions for SAP Retail that give retailers tools which allow them to capitalize on the retail revolution and achieve success in today’s business environment.  Our dedicated team of Retail-focused SAP experts, with specialties ranging from technical and functional implementation to custom configuration and strategic project management, enables our customers to realize the full potential of SAP Retail’s highly flexible, configurable, and powerful solution toolset.  Whether you are a food, hardline, or softline retailer, Dataxstream can help you achieve operational and supply chain excellence with your SAP Retail system.