Paymetric Tokenization Service

Business Context

Paymetric's tokenization management server replaces credit card numbers in applications and databases in SAP with a token. These tokens act as surrogates for the cardholder data for use throughout your Enterprise. This allows you to remove the sensitive data without hampering your ability to serve repeat customers. Throughout this transparent process, credit card data is tokenized and routed through a single secure server, hosted online by Paymetric, ensuring no prohibited, unsecured credit card data resides in the database of your SAP systems. Paymetric's tokenization service dramatically reduces the cost and scope of achieving compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS).

Technical Data

Implementation Platform	Paymetric's XiSecure 1.0
Services Type	A2X, synchronous

Process Components

Business Partner Data Management	The management of all the business partner master data of a company. This data contains the information needed to describe the rights and obligations of a business partner participating in various business processes, such as sales, purchasing, and accounting processes.

The following entities are part of this process component:

Business Objects

Payment Card	A card that can be presented by a cardholder to a vendor to make a cashless payment.

Service Interfaces

Payment Card Action In	The Payment Card Action In inbound service interface groups all operations that perform actions on the business object Payment Card Action or parts of it.

Service Operations

Payment Card Action In

Issue Payment Card Holder Authentication Token	Returns an authentication token for a given payment card.

docupedia - SAP's Help Library meets social media (1)

Background:

The SAP NetWeaver Help Library or “doku” as we like to call it internally has been around as long as SAP software. It comes in many different flavors – from the SAP Library to Installation and Configuration Guides to Glossaries. Most of this documentation is produced by a diligent team of Information Developers around the world, and then goes through a thorough editing and production process before it reaches SAP customers and partners.

On the other hand we have SDN, that over time has accumulated an amazing pool of knowledge around SAP NetWeaver in form of blogs, forums, wikis, articles and more.

Currently our Help Library is not available to SDN, creating some interesting challenges for anyone looking for knowledge around SAP NetWeaver. We actually found some astonishing anecdotes from our users.

Often users have to go to two or three different places or even more to find answers to the questions they have. Some users keep “cheat sheets” of where all the answers are. Others find the documentation a good starting point but then need to find associated materials. Some users have assembled great materials that directly relate to our Library content.

On the other hand we have our Info Developers that have no indication how the materials they are producing are being received out there – what is good, what is missing, what should be changed. How is the product being used by our customers?

In my next installment I'll talk more about how docupediA will bring our product documentation to you - our community and what you can do with it.

Andrea Anderson is a Design Led Innovation coach for SAP NetWeaver PM.

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2008-07-31 09:56:53 Nigel James Business Card [Reply]

This is great project. Documentation that I can comment on, request, tag, etc is an excellent start. The next time I see There is no documentation for function group ... I will be thinking of this project.


Bring it on...
Nigel

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Great stuff!
2008-07-25 23:31:39 Frank Koehntopp SAP Employee Business Card [Reply]

We have been talking about exactly this yesterday - what I'd love to have is help/notes with tags and RSS feeds, so I can create a feed (Yahoo Pipes for example) for a special product/version that has all the related information, in a river of news style.
That would be extremely helpful.

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SAP gets (more) social -- right where we need it!
2008-07-25 16:46:20 Moya Watson SAP Employee Business Card [Reply]

Andrea -
excellent! as an ex-dokudeveloper (read in english: tech writer) at SAP, i would have loved to see my documentation "socialized" via wiki. all of us who have written tech docs know that it is the end-user who holds the ultimate keys to real knowledge of a product. we have one-million-plus golden keys on the SDN; i can't wait to see how this project progresses!
thanks,
-m

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That's exactly what we need
2008-07-25 06:08:21 Michael Koegel SAP Employee Business Card [Reply]

Hi Andrea,
being heavily involved in projects on very early product versions and helping to round of the edges this is exactly what we need.
Being able to ammend the docu in the right places myself rather than having to find the right docu developer would speed up things alot.
On the other hand we'll still need the docu developers to make sure that the user created content is sound and well linked to background information and related topics.


Looking forward to the next installment.

Common Tables used by SAP MM

Below are few important Common Tables used in Materials Management Modules:

EINA Purchasing Info Record- General Data
EINE Purchasing Info Record- Purchasing Organization Data
MAKT Material Descriptions
MARA General Material Data
MARC Plant Data for Material
MARD Storage Location Data for Material
MAST Material to BOM Link
MBEW Material Valuation
MKPF Header- Material Document
MSEG Document Segment- Material
MVER Material Consumption
MVKE Sales Data for materials
RKPF Document Header- Reservation
T023 Mat. groups
T024 Purchasing Groups
T156 Movement Type
T157H Help Texts for Movement Types
MOFF Lists what views have not been created
A501 Plant/Material
EBAN Purchase Requisition
EBKN Purchase Requisition Account Assignment
EKAB Release Documentation
EKBE History per Purchasing Document
EKET Scheduling Agreement Schedule Lines
EKKN Account Assignment in Purchasing Document
EKKO Purchasing Document Header
EKPO Purchasing Document Item
IKPF Header- Physical Inventory Document
ISEG Physical Inventory Document Items
LFA1 Vendor Master (General section)
LFB1 Vendor Master (Company Code)
NRIV Number range intervals
RESB Reservation/dependent requirements
T161T Texts for Purchasing Document Types

SAP MM Tips by : Bahadur

Following are the list of Important MM tables. Please check if its useful.

Inventory Management:
|-------------------------+--------+-----------------------------------------|
| | Table | Description |
|-------------------------+--------+-----------------------------------------|
| Material | MSEG | Material document / transaction details |
| Document/Movements | MKPF | Material document header information |
|-------------------------+--------+-----------------------------------------|
| Material Stock Balances | MARD | Material stock |
| | MBEW | Material stock with valuation |
|-------------------------+--------+-----------------------------------------|
| Sales Order Stock | MSKA | Stock balance with associated sales |
| | | order data |
|-------------------------+--------+-----------------------------------------|
| Stock Transport | EKUB | Index for Stock Transport Orders for |
| | MDUB | Material |
| | | Reading View of Stock Transport Ord. for|
| | | Release Ord. |
|-------------------------+--------+-----------------------------------------|
| Special Stocks | MKOL | Consignment, material provided to |
| | | vendor, etc. |
|-------------------------+--------+-----------------------------------------|

Material Master Data:
|-------------------------+---------+--------------------------------------|
| |Table | Description |
|-------------------------+---------+--------------------------------------|
| Materials | MARA | General Data, material type, group, |
| | | configurable & batch ind. |
| | MAKT | Short Texts, descriptions |
| | MARM | Conversion Factors |
| | MVKE | Sales Org, distribution channel |
| | MLAN | Sales data, tax indicator, tax |
| | MARC | classification |
| | MBEW | Plant Planning Data |
| | MLGN | Valuation Data |
| | MLGT | Warehouse Management Inventory Data |
| | MVER | Warehouse Management Storage Type |
| | MAPR | Data |
| | MARD | Consumption Data |
| | MCHA | Pointer for Forecast Data |
| | MCHB | Storage location data with stock |
| | | balances |
| | | Batches |
| | | Batch Stocks |
|-------------------------+---------+--------------------------------------|