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For SAP R/3 Application White-paper February 7, 2000 Rev F BAR-ONE for SAP R/3 Expand the scope of SAP R/3 modules by integrating high quality barcode label printing Eliminate multi-site setup and maintenance The world’s first dedicated SAP R/3 barcode label design tool for barcode label printers BAR-ONE® for SAP R/3 SAP R/3 helps organizations manage comprehensive financial, manufacturing, human resources, sales and distribution functions that are essential to their operations. The capability to leverage the data integrity provided by SAP R/3 modules can now be realized by directly integrating barcode labeling into many common business processes. While dynamic documents and reports are the predominant printed output from SAP R/3 modules, customers also want to output high- quality barcode labels with graphics, directly within SAP R/3, for applications such as manufacturing, shipping, item tracking and stock control. Such labels require the use of specialty barcode label printers. Today, customers who wish to integrate barcode label printers within SAP R/3, are presented with the option to either upload the printer programming language into a SAPscript layout (upload method) or use label design software in combination with an external service (middleware typically on an NT or Unix server). SAP documentation, located on SAPnet, describes how label printers can be driven direct from SAP R/3. In choosing the upload method over the external service approach, SAP R/3 users can leverage existing SAP print services and eliminate the need to purchase, setup and maintain the application for every server at every separate site location. This approach can greatly reduce equipment costs, reduce implementation time and improve process throughput. To take full advantage of the SAP R/3 upload method, Zebra Technologies Corporation, with assistance from SAP’s development team and global SAP R/3 end users, has developed a special version of its BAR-ONE label design software. Utilizing BAR-ONE for SAP R/3, users can now integrate barcoding into any existing SAP R/3 application. All product and brand names are trademarks of their respective companies. Page 2 BAR-ONE for SAP R/3 Plug and Print directly from SAP R/3 without having to program SAPscript No manual modifications needed before uploading into SAP R/3 Zebra’s BAR-ONE for SAP R/3 software provides easy-to-use label design capabilities that support all of the Zebra printers’ functionality and high performance. Below are a few of the benefits available from the combination of Zebra Printers and BAR-ONE for SAP R/3: • No need to manually write SAPscript. All label design and object manipulation is done graphically (minutes instead of days)! • All Zebra resident bar code symbologies are supported, including UCC/EAN 128, PDF417, Datamatrix and Maxicode. Resident barcodes provide maximum performance and accuracy. • All Zebra resident fonts, including Windowsa TrueType fonts. TrueType fonts can be used for variable data, including serial numbers, with no degradation to label throughput. Support is also included for seven optional Zebra resident scaleable fonts (CG Triumvirate and CG Triumvirate Condensed family). • Dynamic text formatting of SAP R/3 variable data, including automatic word wrapping, left, right and center justification at any orientation for all fonts. • Any barcode, text or graphic field can be linked to any SAP R/3 database field or system variable (i.e. &tablename-fieldname& or &SY-UNAME&) via a simple point-and-click selection. • Variable graphic images (i.e., logos, symbols, etc.) can be printed, depending on the contents of a SAP R/3 variable field. • Smart printer wizards make it easy to store graphics, fonts and formats on printer-based PC cards and flash memory. This provides zero download time for fast “first-label-out”, and reduces network traffic to a minimum. • BAR-ONE for SAP R/3 automatically generates SAPscript, for Zebra printers, in SAP R/3 Internal Text Format (ITF). No manual modifications need to be made to these commands. • All variable fields, including graphics, support advanced SAPscript programming. This is required if you wish to control the contents of a field based on SAPscript IF / ELSEIF conditioning or wish to use SAPscript INCLUDE commands. This is done directly within “BAR-ONE for SAP”. It does not require any further editing within SAP R/3 and allows for simple future label design modifications. • Maximum control and performance of all Zebra printer features. All product and brand names are trademarks of their respective companies. Page 3 BAR-ONE for SAP R/3 All SAP printer drivers are built for forms printing on mainstream office printers BAR-ONE for SAP R/3 is a graphical SAPscript generator How It Works Excluding middle-ware and BAR-ONE for SAP R/3, forms would traditionally be designed by manually writing SAPscript commands. SAPscript then requires that you have a proprietary SAP R/3 printer driver loaded for your target ...