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SAP Tutorials

SAP Business Blueprint vs Fit-to-Standard: What Replaced It in SAP Activate

If you are starting an S/4HANA project in 2026 and searching for "SAP Business Blueprint", you are using vocabulary from fifteen years ago. The term still gets searched heavily, but...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 8 min read
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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...

Pierre Balbinot Pierre B. 10 min read
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SAP Business Partner in S/4HANA: BP Transaction, Roles and CVI Explained

The same company buys from you and sells to you. In SAP ECC, that meant two master records, created in two transactions, with two different numbers: a customer record and...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 10 min read
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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...

Pierre Balbinot Pierre B. 8 min read
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SAP EWM Availability Groups: ROD and AFS Storage Locations

Eight in the morning, the day after go-live. Receiving has been scanning pallets since dawn, the quantities show up fine in S/4HANA, and yet the phone rings: sales order processing...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 12 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP Work Center Formulas: Parameters, OP54 and the Standard Value Key

Your routing times are accurate, validated by the methods team. Yet costing produces wrong costs, and capacity planning shows fantasy loads. Between the two hides a link almost nobody checks:...

Pierre Balbinot Pierre B. 8 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP LTMOM migration object modeler

LTMOM is still the reference transaction for modeling migration objects on S/4HANA on-premise, but ever since the shift from LTMC to the Fiori app "Migrate Your Data" starting with S/4HANA...

Pierre Balbinot Pierre B. 12 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP MRP Area: OM01 config, Plant vs Storage Location

Many PP teams activate an MRP area as soon as they see a need for fine-grained planning, when what they usually lack is a good strategy setup at plant level....

Michael Antoine Michael A. 9 min read
SAP Tutorials

SAP Material Staging for Maintenance Orders: PM-WM Setup Guide

Reserving a spare part and staging it for a maintenance order are not the same thing. In the first case, the part disappears from the system at goods issue. In...

Pierre Balbinot Pierre B. 10 min read