I07_02: Generic Articles
Learn to identify generic articles, or articles with no description. Generic articles are used to hide the purchase of illegitimate items or to avoid pricing controls. This course gives you the fraud scenario, the SAP data you need from ECC or S/4HANA, the Python code and logic, and a hands-on dashboard with an AI chatbot to test your data literacy.
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Three steps, every course.
The risk:
Understand the real fraud scenario behind the analysis.
The data & code:
Get the exact SAP data and Python logic to run it.
The dashboard:
Practise on a live dashboard with an AI chatbot.
Inside this course.
I07_02_L01: Mapping to risks
Main risks If generic articles are used, then it will be difficult for management to control pricing. For example, a…
I07_02_L02: Accounting essentials
Articles creation The articles creation process should be tightly controlled, in order to prevent articles with vague or inaccurate descriptions…
I07_02_L03: SAP data required
Material descriptions Technical field name Description MAKT_MATNR Material number MAKT_SPRAS Language MAKT_MAKTX Description MAKT_MAKTG Description Table MAKT: Material descriptions Material…
I07_02_L04: SAP data logic & code!
Search for articles that have a generic meaning We can search for articles that have a description that sounds like…
I07_02_L05: Visualization case-study
Use the dashboard below to see if there are any articles with generic meaning:
25 years inside SAP audit rooms.
Claire Worledge
Founder, 300Framework · Former Big 4 SAP audit lead
For 25 years I sat on the audit side of SAP — chasing exceptions, untangling P2P breakdowns, explaining to finance teams why their controls weren't catching what they thought.
The 300Framework distills what actually works: the questions that surface real risk, the SAP queries that pull the right data, the workflows that turn findings into fixes. It's the playbook I wish I'd had on day one.
SAP Certified · Big 4 alumna · 189 courses authored · Based in Lisbon
What you're getting into.
The risk
Generic articles are used to hide the purchase of illegitimate items or to avoid pricing controls.
What you’ll learn
This course teaches the Generic articles analysis from the Inventory area of the 300 Framework (Articles): how to identify generic articles, or articles with no description. We start with the real-life fraud scenarios behind it, then give you the accounting and SAP background you need to judge whether the data is genuinely pointing to a problem in the specific context of your organisation.
The data and the code
You’ll get the exact SAP data required to run this analysis from either ECC or S/4HANA — the relevant tables, fields and how to join them — followed by a walk-through of the Python code and its logic: the filters, the joins, the algorithms, and the Artificial Intelligence tools you can layer on to enhance your result set.
Test your skills
Finally, you’ll put it into practice on a real dashboard, answering questions from our chatbot to find the exceptions in the data and choose the most interesting samples to investigate.
Taught by our experts in fraud detection, internal audit, internal control and SAP.
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