Tag: How-to
SAP PM Preventive Maintenance: the complete guide
One hour of unplanned downtime costs a manufacturer 25,000 USD on average, and up to 2.3 million USD/hour in the automotive sector according to the Siemens report True Cost of...
Pierre B.
SAP Roles and Authorizations: PFCG, SU01, SU53 guide
An SAP user presses Enter and lands on the message "You have no authorization for transaction MM03". Three people get involved within the next minute: the user who is fuming,...
Pierre B.
SAP Classification System: characteristics and classes
You are looking for every high-criticality 24V piece of equipment in SAP. Every batch with a viscosity between 200 and 250. Every premium customer in a specific geographic area. If...
Pierre B.
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 B.
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 B.
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 B.
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 A.
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 A.
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 B.
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 A.