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What Are RICEFW's:: Reports

The document explains that RICEFW stands for the key functional areas that functional consultants work on in SAP projects, which are Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflows. It provides examples of the role of functional consultants in executing projects in each of these areas, such as providing specifications for custom reports, data transfers between SAP and external systems, loading legacy data into SAP, and more. Functional consultants work with ABAP developers to implement requirements in each of the RICEFW areas based on the specifications and guidance provided.

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What Are RICEFW's:: Reports

The document explains that RICEFW stands for the key functional areas that functional consultants work on in SAP projects, which are Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflows. It provides examples of the role of functional consultants in executing projects in each of these areas, such as providing specifications for custom reports, data transfers between SAP and external systems, loading legacy data into SAP, and more. Functional consultants work with ABAP developers to implement requirements in each of the RICEFW areas based on the specifications and guidance provided.

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Most of the functional consultants during their SAP projects execution, work on RICEFW’s.

This
document explains what are RICEFW’s in SAP projects and the role of Functional Consultants in
executing them with some real time examples.

What are RICEFW’s :


RICEFW means Reports (R), Interface (I), Conversion (C), Enhancements (E), Forms (F) and
Workflow (W).

we will see what are they and what role Functional Consultants perform in them with real time
examples…

Reports: A SAP report is an executable program that reads data from the database and generates
output based on the filter criteria selected by the end user. It is like display of data based on some
selection. Execution of a SAP report almost never leads to an update of the database.

The various categories of reports are —

1. Standard SAP reports — ex. COOIS,MD04 etc.


2. Custom reports – developed by your organization
3. Ad hoc queries

When the standard SAP reports does not meet the client or business requirement we have to
develop custom reports with the help of ABAP team. For this we need to understand what is the
selection screen, what output they want like what data they want to display on the screen once the
report is executed…

Selection screen: It is the provision to enter the selection criteria.. here is the selection screen for a
report for MRP results validation to check whether sufficient  procurement elements generated or not
after the MRP run to meet the current requirements.
For this we need to give the functional specification to the ABAP team with the details like what is
the selection screen, what is the output format and what are the tables and fields from which data
needs to fetched..based on this they develop the custom report…

Some times we can generate own reports with out taking the help of ABAP by generating the
queries by combining various tables and generating reports…

Interfaces : In some organizations some of the business processes like Planning , Quality
Management functions are executed or maintained in external systems (Non SAP systems). For example
for Planning they use third party systems like M2, ADS and for Quality they use LIMS..We need to send
the data from SAP to those Non SAP systems and receive the data from them back to SAP
system..normally IDocs are used for this data transfers..

Ex: In the planning function entire planning is done in non SAP systems like M2 or ADS then the planning
results are transferred to SAP R/3 system in the form of Planned Independent requirements (PIR’s)
through IDocs. In the Quality functions Inspection lot details from R/3 are transferred to LIMS where user
enters the results now these results come and updated in SAP R/3 system in results recording for the
corresponding inspection lot…

Functional consultant need to give the details what data needs to be transferred or what data to be
received, what are fields etc to the ABAP team…
Conversion: A Conversion means data that is converted from one format to another format and from
one system to another.

So when you first implement SAP, you are actually replacing some of your legacy systems, but you
are not completely trashing the data. You still need some of that data from the systems that are
being replaced. So you pull the data out of your legacy systems and put them on some files. You
then want to load that data into your new SAP system.That is when you write some programs which
will read that data and load it into SAP.

So during go live, you want to transfer the Production orders from from your legacy system to SAP.
Now a Production order in your legacy system may not have the same fields as a Production Order
in SAP. So you convert the data.

Ex: BDC, LSMW

Functional consultant needs to co-ordinate between business team and ABAP team for this..he has to
prepare upload file format for this, based on the tool or program developed by the ABAP team then they
have to collect the data from business team which is filled in to the files then later on upload the data in to
SAP system…a typical BOM upload files looks as below….
a typical master recipe upload file looks as below.

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Enhancements: Enhancements are the means by which we add our own/ modify existing functionality
to SAP’s standard business applications. Some requirements from the client cannot be met with Standard
SAP. That time we need to go for enhancements. Normally enhancements are done through user exits,
customer exits, BADI’s and enhancement frameworks….

one example we can take here is during production order execution if do not complete goods issue for a
production order still system allow to do goods receipt for that particular production order..now business
asks to restrict this or they want control for this. Now we need to give the logic to the ABAP team to put
control for this so that goods receipt of the order is only allowed after the completion of goods issue of
that production order..ABAP team finally implement these enhancements based on the logic provided by
the functional consultant…
Forms: Forms are nothing but printouts taken from SAP. like Process order print, Inspection lot
Certificate of analysis (COA). Standard SAP comes with pre configured layout and design of the forms.
but these standard forms will not meet customer requirements. during this time we need to develop
custom forms in coordination with ABAP team…

Typical custom form of process order is like below…

One more form of material issue slip printed during goods issue

 
For this we need to give the functional specification to the ABAP team with the details like what is the
form layout, what data needs to be printed, from which tables and fields data needs to be fetched for
printing the data…based on this ABAP team develop the custom forms…

Workflow: Workflow, as the name suggests, means of flow of work, may be from one person to
another person..It is in fact a sequence of connected activities resulting in exchange of information…

examples like when the production order is released mail to be triggered to production manager or when
UD is reject for particular inspection lot then mail has to be triggered to quality manager….For this
functional consultant coordinate with ABAP team and will provide the details like what data has to be sent,
under which condition this workflow to be triggered….

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