Frequently Asked Questions

What is SAPweb?
Who Should Use SAPweb?
When Should I Use the SAPgui and not SAPweb?
What are the Benefits of Using SAPweb?
What Training is Available?

What is SAPweb?

SAPweb is a web-based front-end to MIT's SAP financial and administrative system. It was developed to provide a simple interface, requiring minimum training that could be used on any platform that supports the Netscape web browser. You can use SAPweb to perform many financial and administrative functions, including creating requisitions and journal vouchers, approving requisitions, verifying credit card transactions, and maintaining employee personal information.

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Who Should Use SAPweb?

For financial transactions, any SAP user who prefers the look and feel of the web may use it for the available transactions. SAPweb is especially appropriate for those users who only perform SAP transactions occasionally. There are some exceptions however; not all transactions are available on the web, and for those that are available, there are some limitations.

For updating employee information, DLC Administrators whose employees choose not to use Employee Self Service should use SAPweb.

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When Should I Use the SAPgui and not SAPweb?

Here are some examples of reasons you may want or need to use the SAPgui, and not SAPweb:

• You do other financial work in SAP and prefer to do all your work in one system.
• You want to generate reports (you could also use the Data Warehouse).
• You need to charge a requisition to more than three cost objects, or create one with more than 50 line items.
• You want to upload a journal voucher from a spreadsheet.

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What are the Benefits of Using SAPweb?

• User friendly screens without extraneous fields
• Minimal training time
• Data is created in real-time in SAP
• Knowledge of how to navigate in SAP is not required
• Not subject to the SAP two-hour time out
• Update employees’ personal information without having to contact HR/Payroll directly

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What Training is Available?

Information about SAP training is available on our web pages.

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