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Technical articles on the SAP modules you actually run into on projects (EWM, PP, PM, MM, S/4HANA...) and career tips to move forward without burning out along the way.
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SAP EWM: WM, Stock Room Management or EWM, how to choose in S/4HANA
On an S/4HANA project, the question always lands in the scoping meeting: do we keep the warehouse management system as it is, switch to Stock Room Management, or move to...
Michael A.
SAP PM Permits: Work Permit Approval in Maintenance Orders
The hot work permit is signed, in duplicate, sitting in a binder in the maintenance office. Meanwhile, out in the workshop, the grinder is already running. Every industrial site knows...
Pierre B.
SAP WM Warehouse Structure: The 4 Levels Explained
When you first discover SAP WM, one question keeps coming back: "why learn the structure of a module everyone says will disappear with S/4HANA?" It is a fair question, and...
Michael A.
SAP LTMC in 2026: Deprecated, Use Migrate Your Data Instead
You just typed LTMC in a recent S/4HANA system and the cockpit refuses to create a single project? That is expected. The SAP LTMC transaction has been deprecated since S/4HANA...
Michael A.
SAP Background Jobs: SM36, SM37 and the Job Lifecycle Explained
The sales report has to be ready every morning before the teams arrive. Transfer orders need to be processed every five minutes, weekends included. Nobody runs these programs by hand:...
Michael A.
ABAP Debugger Tutorial: Debug an SAP Transaction with /h, Breakpoints and Watchpoints
A dump just landed on your transaction, or a field shows an amount nobody can explain. How do you see what the program is actually doing, without being a developer?...
Michael A.
SAP Batch Input: SM35 guide and 7 production pitfalls
On recent S/4HANA projects, you still regularly hear that batch input "is a thing of the past, we only use LTMC now". The claim is convenient, it makes life easier...
Michael A.
SAP SHDB Transaction Recorder: Session vs Call Transaction
You hear it everywhere: SHDB belongs to the past, replaced by BAPIs, the Migration Cockpit and OData services. That is a convenient simplification for project managers who want to lock...
Pierre B.
SAP PM Cost Management: Value Category, settlement KO88
Cost management in the SAP Plant Maintenance module is one of the most poorly exploited topics on industrial projects. Most consultants treat it as a passive reporting subject, when it...
Pierre B.