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MA
florian.zimniak@galileo-press.com
www.sap-press.com
Introduction

The functionality of the SAP Business Suite is broken down into more
than sixteen thousand individual transactions. Transaction codes (or t-
codes) provide an easy way to access this functionality and to
accomplish a specific task. By entering the code for a transaction in
the command field of the SAP GUI, you can easily navigate to the
exact transaction you need without taking the detour via the menu
structure of SAP Easy Access. Thus, transaction codes save you
valuable time.
This book aims to provide you with a reference for the most commonly
used business transactions in SAP ERP. It lists the codes in
alphabetical order, including their short text, and gives an explanation
as to which functionality the individual transaction provides and what
input it requires.
It would be a enormous task to list and explain every one of the
sixteen thousand delivered transactions and it is doubtful whether such
a book would be helpful or easy to navigate for the reader. Therefore,
based on our experience in projects and that of our colleagues, we
focus on the most commonly used functional transactions in the
following modules of SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4:
Financial Accounting
Controlling
Inventory Management
Materials Management
Warehouse Management
Production Planning
Sales and Distribution
Plant Maintenance
Quality Management
Project System
 Human Capital Management
Basis System
Many of these transactions can be accessed by following the menu
path in SAP Easy Access or in the IMG (configuration transactions). It
is a common practice to bookmark the commonly used transactions as
favorites in SAP Easy Access.

Target Audience
This book is written for professionals—including business users, power
users, administrators, and SAP consultants—interested in learning
about SAP transaction codes and how they can be used in
implementing and using SAP solutions. Whether you need a refresher
on a transaction in “your” module that you have not used in a while or
you want to understand a transaction in a module that you usually do
not work in, this book is for you.

Navigating this Book

We organized the transactions based on the modules where they are
used. Transaction codes such as SQ01, which are commonly used
across all modules, are covered in the Basis System chapter. Within
each chapter, the transactions are sorted by their code, in the following
order:
Symbols: ., -, _, /
Numbers: 0 – 9
Letters: A – Z
You can search for a particular transaction code by simply browsing
the specific module chapter, but the book’s extensive index provides
you with several more search options:
You can search by transaction code. This is useful if you are not
sure which module a specific code belongs to.
You can search by transaction short text. This helps if you know
the exact short text but not the code of a specific transaction.