Detailed Implementation Guide for ERP, BCO5651, University Project

This report serves as a comprehensive implementation guide for ERP systems, addressing key aspects such as the Implementation Guide (IMG), transportation zones, logical systems, and personnel area creation. It details the purpose and types of IMG, explaining its hierarchical structure and benefits. The report outlines the differences between SAP Easy Access and IMG menus and provides step-by-step instructions on creating personnel areas and assigning them to company codes. Furthermore, the guide covers various aspects of the IMG including currency checks, maintaining forms of address, adding new units of measurement, defining organizational structures, creating company codes, chart of accounts, controlling areas, credit control areas, and financial areas. Detailed steps are provided for defining and assigning company codes, including global parameters, account groups, and field status variants. The document also includes the creation of G/L accounts and personnel sub-areas. This guide offers a practical approach to ERP implementation, offering a valuable resource for students studying business development and related fields, with the purpose of providing a detailed overview of the ERP implementation process.

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Table of Contents
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Question 2..................................................................................................................................2
Question 3..................................................................................................................................2
Question 4..................................................................................................................................3
Question 5..................................................................................................................................3
Question 6..................................................................................................................................3
Question 7..................................................................................................................................4
Question 8..................................................................................................................................4
Question 9..................................................................................................................................5
Question 10................................................................................................................................5
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Question 1
Describe IMG.
IMG represents Implementation Guide. The main purpose of IMG is to train the
potential users in respect to customized behaviour that will further help them to configure the
overall system appropriately and specifically in respect to the business as well as needs of the
organization (Chugh, Sharma and Cabrera, 2017). Moreover, the IMG tends to help the users
to select the specific functions, which will amplify the need of the business processes related
to the project.
Question 2
List three different types of IMG.
The Implementation Guide can be divided into three types that are stated below:
 SAP Reference Implementation Guide: This contains the overall activities that are
required for the implementation of the overall processes within the SAP System.
 Project Implementation Guide: this contains the guides for each of the implementation
project as well as provide its users with the latest updates.
 Project View Implementation Guide: This tends to help the overall project activities
so that the attributes can be selected within the specified criteria.
Question 3
What is the meaning of “Transportation Zones” in IMG.
The concept of transportation zone primarily defined as an object, which tends to
group a sum of significant positions. This is used within a business to help the overall system
with the transmission of the overall properties partly that are potentially assigned within the

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transportation zones to the overall locations. Moreover, the significant function tends to
reduce the amount of the associated master information that the systems stores efficiently.
The various genres related to the transportation zone are identified as Direct Zone, Region
Zone, Postal Code Zone and Mixed Zone.
Question 4
Provide a definition of Logical System.
Logical systems are defined to be abstract idealized languages that are primarily
developed by the modern logicians that will intend to analyse the deduction concept. These
models are depicted, as structures will are used to provide the significant interpretation in
respect to the symbolism that are embedded within the formal system (Orlando et al., 2016).
The collection of the formal system as well as the model will constitute of the important tools
that are significantly employed within the contemporary physical theories.
Question 5
Is IMG a hierarchically structured and is based on the application component hierarchy.
The implementation guide of ERP is said to be structured hierarchically and it
depends on the component of application hierarchy (Harwood, 2017). The significant core
with respect to this guide deals with the dignified IMG activities that leads to consuming
further leading to appropriate settings of the system. The overall activities of the IMG are
potentially documented within it in details. The overall implementation projects are also
depicted to be documented within the IMG.
Question 6
List three benefits of using IMG.

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The first significant advantage is depicted as that the IMG helps the implementation
of ERP within the company in quick, safe as well as cost effective method.
Managing, Editing as well as analysing the implementation or the up gradation of the
projects are also done in an effective manner (Ali and Miller, 2017).
The proper documentation as well as monitoring the implementation phases are also
carried out effectively with the usage of the effective project management tools.
Question 7
What are the different ways of displaying IMG?
The IMG for the ERP implementation can be done in various ways that are stated
below:
 As a SAP reference IMG.
 As a Project IMG: In respect to this, further two different ways of displaying Project
IMG that are depicted as Perform Project and the management of project.
 Apart from these, the IMG is respected to be displayed within two more various ways
that are depicted as IMG without tree control and IMG with tree control.
Question 8
What is the difference between Sap Easy access menu and IMG menu?
IMG is stated to be the backend configuration in which the organization configures
according to the requirement of the client as well as the potential configuration will surely
reflect in the menu of the easy access in which the options can be selected via the F4 button
or the dropdown menu (Pelphrey, 2015). Thus, it can be depicted that IMG mainly deals with
the background configuration as well as the Easy Access deals with the front-end
configuration. Moreover, IMG mainly links with the performance of the configuration that

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the client needs as well as the Easy Access provides a link to the potential transactions, which
helps us to manage the overall company data.
Question 9
How to create ‘Personnel area’ in IMG?
The development of the Personnel area within the environment of IMG deals with the
following steps:
 Customized SAP Implementation Guide
 Structure of the Enterprise
 Definition
 Management of Human Resources
 Personnel Areas
 Selection of the Activity
 Copy, Checking and Delete of the Personnel Subarea
 Selecting the button of “Copy Org Object”
 Copying the Form with the selection of “Put Existing PA Code which you want to
copy from”
 To Pers. Area with “Put New PA Code”
 Selecting the “OK” Button
Question 10
How to assign personnel area to company code in IMG?
The overall phases that is to be implemented for assigning the personnel area within
the significant code in respect to the company in the IMG are stated as follows:

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Step 1: – Process the tcode “SPRO” within the field of command that is displayed in the
figure.
Step 2:- Select the “Display SAP Reference IMG”
Step 3:- Following the navigation menu within the display screen Assignment > Human
Resource Management > Assign Personnel area within the Company code.

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Step 4: – Within the section of Change view “Assignment of personnel area to company
code” overview screen, click on position button and enter the personnel area key in the entry
field, press enter? to continue. Now you your personnel area key displays on top of the
screen, so that you easily assign company code to this personnel area in SAP.
Step 5: – The next process adheres the entry of the company code “TK01” in the given field
company code, country grouping key (Press F4 for list of available country grouping codes)
and press enter.
Selecting the SAVE button thus saving the assignment details which are configured.

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References
Ali, M. and Miller, L., 2017. ERP system implementation in large enterprises–a systematic
literature review. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 30(4), pp.666-692.
Chugh, R., Sharma, S.C. and Cabrera, A., 2017. Lessons Learned from Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) Implementations in an Australian Company. International Journal of
Enterprise Information Systems (IJEIS), 13(3), pp.23-35.
Harwood, S., 2017. ERP: The implementation cycle. Routledge.
Orlando, K., Bautista, M.M., Gonzalez, E.B. and Vazquez, C.A.M., 2016. IBM ProtecTIER
Implementation and Best Practices Guide. IBM Redbooks.
Pelphrey, M.W., 2015. Directing the ERP Implementation: A Best Practice Guide to
Avoiding Program Failure Traps While Tuning System Performance. CRC Press.