Administering Sap R/3: Sd-Sales and Distribution Module

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Summary: No customising!
Review: I should have paid more attention to the title. It's called "Administering" SAP R/3 and not "Customising". It explains how to use the different SD functions not how to implement them. Unfortunately, it cannot be recommended to users either because it is too technical and does not explain things in a comprehensive manner. There are some books that emphasise the business process and help you decide how to implement this in SAP. This is not one of them. This book is smack in the middle of a no-mans land. It's no good for customising, no good for users and no good for planning business processes.

I totally agree with some of the other reviewers. Your better off with the online documentation.

Save your bucks. Don't waste them on this book.

Incidently, if your looking for a book on SD customising, I can recommend "Implementing SAP Sales and Distribution": 5 stars!

Rating:
Summary: I wish I had my money back.
Review: I should have paid more attention to the title. It's called "Administering" SAP R/3 and not "Customising". It explains how to use the different SD functions not how to implement them. Unfortunately, it cannot be recommended to users either because it is too technical and does not explain things in a comprehensive manner. There are some books that emphasise the business process and help you decide how to implement this in SAP. This is not one of them. This book is smack in the middle of a no-mans land. It's no good for customising, no good for users and no good for planning business processes.

I totally agree with some of the other reviewers. Your better off with the online documentation.

Save your bucks. Don't waste them on this book.

Incidently, if your looking for a book on SD customising, I can recommend "Implementing SAP Sales and Distribution": 5 stars!

Rating:
Summary: Publication of the SAP online help!
Review: This book offers no help at all in configuring the SD module.

It basically just explains all the functionality that is available in the SD module, without explaining how you can configure SAP to use the functionality.

If you are buying the book to see what SAP SD can do, fine. But if you want to configure the module, try another book! I recommend the SD book by Glynn Williams from McGraw Hill.

I have also read the MM and FI-CO books in the ASAP series, and they are the same! - they cover the functionality and not the configuration.

And even though these books cover the functionality, they don't explain how to use it effectively, they just tell you what functionality is available.

You may as well spend some time using the SAP online help.

I suppose these books were great when SAP was new and not many people understood it, but now the market is more intelligent and aware of what SAP can do the market expects quality information on configuring the SAP system and using it to solve business situations.

Rating:
Summary: I wish I had my money back.
Review: This book was a waste of time and money. This is the worst technical book I have ever read. The second bullet on the the cover states, "Learn how to develop and intergrate the SD module with your existing SAP R/3 system.". This is very misleading as this book is nothing more than a high-level overview of SD and goes into no detail on "how" to develop anything. I also have the MM book by the same name and it also is worthless.