SAP Best Practices

Prepackaged Industry & Cross-Industry Know-How

Availability for SAP Customers and SAP Partners

1. Availability of SAP Best Practices 2. Downloading SAP Best Practices

Availability of SAP Best Practices

Who can obtain SAP Best Practices? SAP customers and partners can download SAP Best Practices from the SAP Software Distribution Center on the SAP Service Marketplace (http://service.sap.com/swdc) or order CDs/DVDs via their contracts department. SAP Best Practices are provided free of charge. SAP employees can order SAP Best Practices documentation CDs/DVDs from their local EBP catalog as detailed in the ordering information for SAP employees. Are SAP Best Practices available to other interested parties? All interested parties who are not SAP customers, partners or employees can view the SAP Best Practices documentation in the SAP Help Portal (http://help.sap.com/bestpractices). Are there any prerequisites for downloading SAP Best Practices from the SAP Software Distribution Center? For downloading SAP Best Practices, customers and partners require a valid S-User ID. In order to obtain this S-User ID, please register on the SAP Service Marketplace entry page (http://service.sap.com).

1. Availability of SAP Best Practices 2. Downloading SAP Best Practices

Downloading SAP Best Practices

What does an SAP Best Practices package comprise? An SAP Best Practices package comprises a documentation CD/DVD and a configuration DVD. The documentation CD/DVD contains the documentation of one industry or one cross-industry SAP Best Practices version in all country versions available for a particular release of the SAP Business Suite. Note: the country versions of the SAP Best Practices Baseline Package are delivered on two documentation DVDs. Please refer to the info page in the SAP Software Distribution Center for detailed information. The SAP Best Practices Add-on is delivered on the configuration DVD. Are packages available for all SAP Best Practices versions? No. The following SAP Best Practices versions comprise only a documentation CD, but no configuration DVD: SAP Best Practices for Business Warehousing SAP Best Practices for Enterprise Portals SAP Best Practices for SCM

Downloading SAP Best Practices

Access the SAP Service Marketplace (http://service.sap.com) and log on with your S-User ID.

Downloading SAP Best Practices

Choose Consulting, Solutions, and User Group Areas

Downloading SAP Best Practices

Choose Quick Links

Downloading SAP Best Practices

Choose the quick link /swdc

Downloading SAP Best Practices

On the entry screen of the Software Distribution Center, choose

SAP Installations and Upgrades g SAP Best Practices Entry by Application Group g

and click on the desired SAP Best Practices version.

Downloading SAP Best Practices

On the Installation and Upgrades page of your desired SAP Best Practices version, choose Installation.

Downloading SAP Best Practices

Select the desired items and choose Add to Download Basket. On the following screen, choose Download Basket.

Downloading SAP Best Practices

Option 1: Download of several items at once using the Download Manager

Option 2: Download of individual items without using the Download Manager

In the Download Basket, you can choose between two download options: Option 1: Download several items using the Download Manager The Download Manager enables you to download several items in one single step. For detailed instructions on this option, choose Get Download Manager.

Option 2: Download individual items without using the Download Manager

For downloading individual items without using the Download Manager, click on the description of the desired item.