The articles by Pierre Balbinot.
SAP Serial Number: OIS2 setup and material vs equipment
A SAP serial number is the unique identifier attached to one specific physical unit of a given material. It is the tool for unit-level traceability, the foundation for individualized after-sales...
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SAP Functional Specification: WRICEF template and pitfalls
Most SAP consultants treat the functional specification as administrative drudgery to dispatch before getting to the real work. Rookie mistake. A well-written FS decides on its own whether the development...
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SAP PRT: Production Resources and Tools
On an industrial site, the tools shared between production lines are often invisible in SAP. Jigs, probes and technical drawings move from one order to the next, but nobody knows...
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SAP Rollout guide: multi-site method with SAP Activate
Most project managers running their first SAP rollout discover after a few weeks that they are managing not an IT project but a transformation of the business operations. The technical...
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SAP PM Preventive Maintenance: the complete guide
One hour of unplanned downtime costs a manufacturer 25,000 USD on average, and up to 2.3 million USD/hour in the automotive sector according to the Siemens report True Cost of...
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SAP Roles and Authorizations: PFCG, SU01, SU53 guide
An SAP user presses Enter and lands on the message "You have no authorization for transaction MM03". Three people get involved within the next minute: the user who is fuming,...
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SAP Classification System: characteristics and classes
You are looking for every high-criticality 24V piece of equipment in SAP. Every batch with a viscosity between 200 and 250. Every premium customer in a specific geographic area. If...
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Beginner's guide to batch management in SAP MM
I have seen consultants tick the "Batch management" box on thousands of materials in a MASS run, without realizing the batch level was still set at client level. A few...
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SAP batch determination and management
You are configuring SAP batch determination and the engine does not kick in. You are picking batches in the wrong order even though the sort rule is correctly set up....
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SAP Production Version: setup with C223 and MRP4
https://youtu.be/Bae4g30aZC4 The production version is the SAP object that says "to manufacture this material, you combine this bill of materials with this routing, over this period". On an S/4HANA project,...
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SAP pMRP Explained: Predictive MRP in S/4HANA (and How It Differs from LTP)
SAP pMRP is neither one more MRP run nor a quick facelift of LTP. Predictive Material and Resource Planning is a simulation: nothing you do in it touches your operational...
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SAP Production Types: Discrete vs Repetitive vs Process Manufacturing
A team closing dozens of identical production orders every week on a perfectly stable line, and a controller analyzing variances order by order when nothing ever changes: that is the...
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