This book shares practical advice about how to get started in a lucrative career working with SAP software. You’ll learn what SAP is, what kinds of jobs there are in the SAP world, and how you can land one. You’ll discover what hiring managers are looking for on resumes and during interviews, and about SAP projects and roles. You’ll learn how to make and execute a plan that can help you get a job working with SAP software, even if you have no SAP experience. You’ll determine how to evaluate the marketplace and your background in order to craft a specialization strategy. You’ll also discover what to do and what not to do in order to succeed after you’ve landed that first SAP job. This book lays out the big picture of the SAP ecosystem and where you can play in it, as well as offering a step-by-step road map for success in your career search. Finally, this book provides a critical appendix with links to an extensive list of SAP customers, consulting companies, and other potential employers to target in your job search. If you’re already working with SAP, this book will be a handy reference to help you further your SAP career and navigate the many career options available to you. This book is indispensable tool for launching a successful career in the exciting and profitable world of SAP!
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to SAP S/4HANA Sales and Distribution (SD). You will learn the basic fundamentals of SAP SD, with examples based on a case-study approach. Using a fictional company scenario, you will learn the fundamentals of the order-to-cash process and key flow, from sales order delivery to billing document. Explore the foundational document–the sales order. Obtain detailed information on master data and how it is used in SD. Dive into master data objects, business partners, and material masters. Review how master data is connected to sales orders and pricing. Understand sales order processing, including item categories, availability checking, dates, shipping, texts, and more. Walk through delivery processing and billing. Familiarize yourself with two of the major SD pre-sales documents – contracts and quotations. Delve into the post-sales processes, including returns, service, and debit and credit memos. Look at transactional list reports and analytical reports. For readers who are new to SAP SD in S/4HANA, the detailed case study, practical examples, tips and screenshots quickly bring readers up to speed on the fundamentals. - Foundations of SAP SD in S/4HANA - Sales orders and document types - Master data objects, business partners and material masters - Examples and screenshots based on a case-study approach
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to SAP S/4HANA Sales and Distribution (SD). You will learn the basic fundamentals of SAP SD, with examples based on a case-study approach. Using a fictional company scenario, you will learn the fundamentals of the order-to-cash process and key flow, from sales order delivery to billing document. Explore the foundational document–the sales order. Obtain detailed information on master data and how it is used in SD. Dive into master data objects, business partners, and material masters. Review how master data is connected to sales orders and pricing. Understand sales order processing, including item categories, availability checking, dates, shipping, texts, and more. Walk through delivery processing and billing. Familiarize yourself with two of the major SD pre-sales documents – contracts and quotations. Delve into the post-sales processes, including returns, service, and debit and credit memos. Look at transactional list reports and analytical reports. For readers who are new to SAP SD in S/4HANA, the detailed case study, practical examples, tips and screenshots quickly bring readers up to speed on the fundamentals. - Foundations of SAP SD in S/4HANA - Sales orders and document types - Master data objects, business partners and material masters - Examples and screenshots based on a case-study approach
This book shares practical advice about how to get started in a lucrative career working with SAP software. You’ll learn what SAP is, what kinds of jobs there are in the SAP world, and how you can land one. You’ll discover what hiring managers are looking for on resumes and during interviews, and about SAP projects and roles. You’ll learn how to make and execute a plan that can help you get a job working with SAP software, even if you have no SAP experience. You’ll determine how to evaluate the marketplace and your background in order to craft a specialization strategy. You’ll also discover what to do and what not to do in order to succeed after you’ve landed that first SAP job. This book lays out the big picture of the SAP ecosystem and where you can play in it, as well as offering a step-by-step road map for success in your career search. Finally, this book provides a critical appendix with links to an extensive list of SAP customers, consulting companies, and other potential employers to target in your job search. If you’re already working with SAP, this book will be a handy reference to help you further your SAP career and navigate the many career options available to you. This book is indispensable tool for launching a successful career in the exciting and profitable world of SAP!
This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of a ski culture and every aspect of the sport's development, including the emergence of the mega-resort and advances in equipment, technique, instruction, and competition. The Story of Modern Skiing is laced with revelations from the author's personal relationships with skiing greats such as triple Olympic gold medalists Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy, double gold medalist and environmental champion Andrea Mead Lawrence, first women's World Cup winner Nancy Greene, World Alpine champion Billy Kidd, Sarajevo gold and silver medalists Phil and Steve Mahre, and industry pioneers such as Vail founder Pete Seibert, metal ski designer Howard Head, and plastic boot inventor Bob Lange. Fry writes authoritatively of alpine skiing in North America and Europe, of Nordic skiing, and of newer variations in the sport: freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and extreme skiing. He looks closely at skiing's relationship to the environment, its portrayal in the media, and its response to social and economic change. Maps locating major resorts, records of ski champions, and a timeline, bibliography, glossary, and index of names and places make this the definitive work on modern skiing. Skiers of all ages and abilities will revel in this lively tale of their sport's heritage.
Rocky Mountain Modern is a collection of the most inspiring modern residences in the Rockies, a region with a surprising but deep history of modernist design Rocky Mountain Modern presents the most inspiring modern residences set within the stunning landscapes of the Rockies. Perched on cliffsides or nestled into verdant valleys, with expansive picture windows framing breathtaking vistas and natural materials such as wood and stone interpreted in new ways, these striking homes reveal modern living at its best in the mountains. Indeed, modern design has a deep connection to the region: in the 1940s, Aspen, a former mining town in the Colorado Rockies, became an unlikely bastion of modernism, hosting some of the world’s leading designers, including Herbert Bayer, Eero Saarinen, Buckminster Fuller, and Victor Lundy. Over the ensuing decades, a regional modernism developed that blended clean lines, open volumes, and glass walls with the natural features of the rocky landscape and a vernacular that had adapted to the extreme environmental conditions. Rocky Mountain Modern celebrates this enduring tradition of modernism through the most remarkable residences in the region, designed by such architecture studios as Selldorf Architects, Olson Kundig, and Allied Works in Aspen, Telluride, Vail, Sun Valley, Jackson Hole, and other picturesque locales across the Rocky Mountains, from New Mexico to British Columbia.
In a regional history of colonization and adaptation in southern Ukraine, Staples examines how diverse agrarian groups, faced with common environmental, economic, and administrative conditions, followed sharply divergent paths of development.
Beavers are widely recognised as a keystone species which play a pivotal role in riparian ecology. Their tree felling and dam building behaviours coupled with a suite of other activities create a wealth of living opportunities that are exploited by a range of other species. Numerous scientific studies demonstrate that beaver-generated living environments that are much richer in terms of both biodiversity and biomass than wetland environments from which they are absent. Emerging contemporary studies indicate clearly that the landscapes they create can afford sustainable, cost-effective remedies for water retention, flood alleviation, silt and chemical capture. Beaver activities, especially in highly modified environments, may be challenging to certain land use activities and landowners. Many trialled and tested methods to mitigate against these impacts, including a wide range of non-lethal management techniques, are regularly implemented across Europe and North America. Many of these techniques will be new to people, especially in areas where beavers are newly re-establishing. This handbook serves to discuss both the benefits and challenges in living with this species, and collates the wide range of techniques that can be implemented to mitigate any negative impacts. The authors of this handbook are all beaver experts and together they have a broad range of scientific knowledge and practical experience regarding the ecology, captive husbandry, veterinary science, pathology, reintroduction and management of beavers in both continental Europe and Britain.
Broader political and economic changes are dramatically reshaping rural and small-town communities in British Columbia and across Canada. Increasingly, however, much of the responsibility for community-based prosperity and survival is falling to communities themselves. This book is drawn from a three-year participatory research project with four communities in British Columbia: two municipalities and two Aboriginal communities. The first part of the book examines historical and contemporary forces of restructuring, linking the development of rural communities with the legacy of resource development and Aboriginal marginalization across the province. The second part of the book presents the theoretical and practical dynamics of the community economic development (CED) process and outlines a variety of strategies communities can initiate to diversify their local economies. Second Growth advances understanding of local development by addressing two important deficiencies in the CED literature. First, CED is a rapidly expanding field that requires enhanced theoretical direction and historical analysis. Second, there is a need for systematic case study analyses of CED strategies in rural, small-town conditions. As communities struggle to confront complex forces of change, sound theoretical frameworks and tested best practices are important tools in facilitating the prospects for a second growth in rural and small-town communities. The book will appeal to educators and students of rural and economic geography, policy makers, and citizens who wish to better understand the transformations taking place across the rural landscape.
Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the military-industrial complex; and (7) limits to growth. These problems are closely interlinked, and their possible solutions are discussed in this book.
There is no populated place without a name, and every name is chosen for a reason. This fascinating dictionary unveils the etymological roots and history of thousands of locations and landmarks from around the world. It contains over 11,000 entries, and covers an enormous range of country, region, island, city, town, mountain and river names from across the world, as well as the name in the local language. Place names are continually changing, and new names are adopted for many different reasons such as invasion, revolution, and decolonization. The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names includes selected former names, and, where appropriate, some historical detail to explain the transition. The names of places often offer a real insight into the places themselves, revealing religious and cultural traditions, the migration of peoples, the ebb and flow of armies, the presence of explorers, local languages, industrial developments and topography. Superstition and legend can also play a part. This new edition has been updated to include over 750 new names, including Azincourt, Kropyvnyts'kyy , and Tlaxcala. It has also been edited to reflect socio-political and geographical shifts, notably the reorganisation of the French regions, and their consequent name alterations, as well as the decommunization of Ukrainian place-names. In addition to the entries themselves, the dictionary includes two appendices: a glossary of foreign word elements which appear in place-names and their meanings, and a list of personalities and leaders from all over the world who have influenced the naming of places.
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