SAP Tutorials
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.
SAP Plant Maintenance Module: Complete Overview of SAP PM
One Tuesday morning, a press stops in the middle of a production order. Within minutes, you have to alert maintenance, pull parts from the warehouse, book a technician, inform production...
Pierre B.
LSMW in S/4HANA: What Still Works and What Breaks
Type LSMW into an SAP S/4HANA on-premise system in 2026 and the workbench opens normally: all fourteen steps are there, and so are your old projects. Yet the Simplification List...
Michael A.
SAP DMS: the Document Info Record, and when you actually need it
Dropping a PDF onto a maintenance order through the generic object services is not document management. Until a Document Info Record exists, that is a typed master record, versioned and...
Michael A.
How to Add a New System Entry in SAP Logon (SAP GUI)
Your workstation is ready, SAP GUI is installed, and the administrator has sent you three cryptic pieces of information: an IP address, a System ID, an instance number. Now what?...
Michael A.