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URGENTLY REQUIRED FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS(FIELDS) AND TECHINAL SPECIFICATION (FIELDS) FOR THE TRANSACTION VD01,

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Dear Kumar,

I hope you are asking about uploading data through VD01.

You can use LSMW tool to upload the same. Or you can develop BDC or BAPI program.

Functional Specification:

You would need to identify the layout from legacy system. Map the fields to corresponding SAP fields.

Decide which method are you going to use. Batch Input, Direct Input etc. Supply all the mandatory fields either from the legacy file, constant or some logic.

Visit the following link:

Where you would also find differences between BDC and LSMW.

For information regarding LSMW steps visit the following link:

/people/hema.rao/blog/2006/09/14/lsmw--step-by-step

http://help.sap.com/bp_blv1500/BL_US/html/dataconv_lsmw.htm

BDC or BAPI Steps:

1. Fetch Data (Download/Read Dataset/Select from Tables)

3. Massage data as per SAP format.

3. Validation Check

4. Pass valid data to BDC (Call Transaction/Session) or BAPI

5. In case of session method - session log is generated. In case of Call transaction you can use an internal table with structure BDCMSGCOLL to get messages. In case of BAPI the messages will be returned in return table (strcutre BAPIRET2/BAPIRETTAB).

Hope this will help.

Regards,

Naveen.

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Dear Kumar,

Functional specification: The Functional Specification is a comprehensive document created after the Software Requirements Document. It provides more details on selected items originally described in the Software Requirements Template. Elsewhre organizations combine these two documents into a single document.

Functional specs is like a templeate document, hence it will be same whether it is AR or AP or CCA. Basically functional specs is a document which explains the requirements with technical details, so that technical consultant or any other person can read and understand what is the background of the report or an extension done in SAP.

The Functional Specification describes the features of the desired functinality. It describes the product's features as seen by the stake holders,and contains the technical information and the data needed for the design and developement.

The functional specs should have the following details:

Background: Information why this report is required and Business process involved in that.

Selection Parameters: This should what fields should be selection fields, which are optional and which are mandatory etc.

Layout of the report: What information is required in the output of the report. This should also indicate the technical names - Table and field names from where the data needs to be fetched.

Detailed Description: This should explain the logic of the report - what calculations needs to be done etc.

The Functional Specification defines what the functionality will be of a particulat area that is to be precise a transaction in SAP terminology.

It also contains the data regarding change history, if any.

Functional Spec is mainly prepared for the purpose of developing the new reports (this happens only when SAP standard report not achieve the client purpose) using the ABAP Program. for ABAPers you need to give the details of the Tables , Fields and the logic how to pick the value and get the report.

Visit the following links:

http://www.sap-img.com/general/what-are-functional-specification-in-sap.htm

http://www.epri.com/eprisoftware/processguide/funcspec.html

Hope this is helpful.

Regards,

Naveen.

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Hi,

Even i am curious to know

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functional specification field :

Account Group

Customer number

TEchnical Specifications:

Sales organisation

Distribution channel

Division

Please reward the points if the answer is helpful

REgards,

Murali