Chapter 10. Modification and Customization Techniques
SAP software is a so-called out-of-the-box type of product. This means that companies should be able to use every functionality immediately after installation. Of course, you need to customize some basic information about your business, but accounting and logistic processes are part of the system from the very outset. For many years, SAP has been developing its software in cooperation with its clients and partners. Most transactions are prepared in such a way that they can be adapted to business without the need for programming or installing anything extra. However, every enterprise is unique, and not everything can be provided from the offset. To solve this problem, SAP gives every customer a rich number of abilities to modify processes using various extension technologies. This is the place where ABAP developers are needed. It's impossible to be an ABAP developer without knowing about what's included in this chapter.
The following topics...