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The articles by Michael Antoine.

About

The journey.

Co-founder of Key User Training. Independent SAP consultant, EWM certified, specialized in Supply Chain and S/4HANA architecture.

Before SAP, eight years in industrial maintenance at Ceratizit: maintenance methods planner, team lead, then methods manager. His first real contact with SAP came in 2018, as a key user on an ERP implementation project on the maintenance side. In 2020, he moved into the SAP Logistics consultant role, still at Ceratizit, working mainly in-house on S/4HANA and EWM. Since founding Key User Training in 2022, he has also taken on occasional external assignments. It is this key-user experience that grounds his teaching.

Official author on the Espresso Tutorials platform, where his SAP EWM and Supply Chain courses have supported thousands of learners in French and English. He also runs the MIX SAP newsletter (2200 subscribers), a weekly share of field insights for key users and consultants in the making.

His conviction: you learn SAP through hands-on practice on real cases, not from the documentation. And the best SAP consultant is first and foremost a consultant who understands the client's business.

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Your First SAP Project as a Consultant: What to Expect

Your First SAP Project as a Consultant: What to Really Expect Nobody starts their first SAP project at the beginning of the project. That is the paradox of arriving: you...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 14 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP Credit Block: Release a Blocked Sales Order (VKM1, VKM3)

SAP Credit Block: Release a Blocked Sales Order (VKM1, VKM3) and Understand OVA8 You create a sales order the way you do a hundred times a week, and instead of...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 19 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP EWM Wave Management: Waves, WT and WO Explained

SAP EWM Wave Management: Mastering Picking Waves A misconception runs through almost every team I meet: "my wave creates my picking tasks." It does not. SAP EWM wave management builds...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 14 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP BOM and Routing: Create the Pair (CS01, CA01)

SAP BOM and routing: understand and build the BOM / routing pair First thing to get straight, because this is where everyone stumbles: in SAP, a bill of materials has...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 19 min read
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SAP Consultant Interview Questions and How to Answer Them

You know your module inside out. You have practised your transactions, you know how to configure, you even have a project or two to talk about. And yet, on the...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 21 min read
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Career Change to SAP at 40: Is It Too Late?

Career Change to SAP at 40: Is It Too Late? When I really moved into SAP, I had spent nearly nine years in industrial maintenance. Methods technician, then team leader,...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 15 min read
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SAP Consultant Resume: Junior and Career-Change Guide

You completed a training course, you know your module, you can configure a few things in a demo system. And yet, you send out your CV and nothing happens. No...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 17 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP IDoc Guide: Read an IDoc, Fix Status 51 (WE02, BD87)

SAP IDoc Guide: How to Read an IDoc, Diagnose an Error (WE02 / WE19 / BD87) and Know When to Use It A failed SAP IDoc is often a junior...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 17 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP Output Determination: How SAP Decides What to Print or Send (NACE)

SAP output determination: how SAP decides which document to print or send (NACE) A SAP output document never fires "just because". When a sales order goes out as an email...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 15 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP SM30 Table Maintenance: Edit a Table Without a Developer

SAP SM30: maintain a customizing table without a developer (and when to use SM31 or SE11) A consultant forwards me a screenshot: "Michael, the client wants to add three rows...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 16 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP Selection Variant: Save, Reuse and Schedule a Report

SAP Selection Variant: Save, Reuse and Schedule the Execution of a Report Every Monday morning, it is the same ritual: you open your report, you retype the same company code,...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 16 min read
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SAP SD Pricing Determination: The Condition Technique

Sooner or later, on a project, a user shows you a sales order and asks why the displayed price is not the one they expected. You open the line, you...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 14 min read