SAP CEO: India is getting expensive (Latest News)

Escalating personnel costs in India -- one of the world's largest markets for off-shore software development services -- have prompted business software vendor SAP to begin looking elsewhere for lower-cost, skilled programmers.

"India is slowly getting expensive," SAP Chief Executive Officer Henning Kagermann said in an interview published Monday in the German edition of the Financial Times. "We have decided to hire a certain number there, and then start looking at other locations."

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Blocks in SAP (Tips n Tricks)

In Sales Order , you can block the following transaction:

1. For Shipping
2. For Billing

There are four types of Blocks in SAP:

1. Billing Block
2. Delivery Block
3. Reason for Rejection
4. Order Reason

At Header Level of Sales Document Type, you can put the following Blocks:

1. Billing Block
2. Deivery Block
3. Order Reason

At Line Item Level of Sales Document Type, you can put the following Blocks:

1. Billing Block
2. Reason for Rejection

At Schedule Line Level of Sales Document Type, you can put the following Blocks:

1. Delivery Block

Note : Billing Block prevents the Invoicing. Delivery Block prevents the creation of Delivery in general. It allows the delivery and Picking but blocks the PGI (Posting Goods Issue). Reason for Rejection can be entered in one or more line items. In copy control, these items can be stopped from being copied into subsequent documents.