Tag: Concept
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.