Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

Hour 13. Reporting and Query Basics

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Overview of the reporting options in SAP

• Introduction to variants

• Creating an SAP Query

• SAP QuickViewer

• Using the InfoSet (Ad Hoc) Query

This hour covers reporting concepts and introduces the SAP Information System, which contains the General Report Selection Tree. Other reporting options are also discussed briefly. At the end of this hour, we wrap up with detailed discussion of several SAP reporting tools (SAP Query, InfoSet Query, Ad Hoc Query, and QuickViewer).

Reporting Tools

SAP has the capability to support and manage all a firm’s business processes and underlying data. Although this data is stored in the SAP system and can be presented on SAP screens, you ...