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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...

Pierre Balbinot Pierre B. 12 min read
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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....

Pierre Balbinot Pierre B. 12 min read
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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,...

Pierre Balbinot Pierre B. 9 min read
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SAP SHD0: transaction and screen variants

https://youtu.be/Vpe511bIsE8 SHD0 (Transaction and Screen Variants) lets you customize standard transactions in SAP without development: hide fields, pre-fill values, simplify screens for specific user profiles. This guide shows how to...

Michael Antoine Michael A. 7 min read
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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
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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