SAP HANA MRP Live BADI Usage

SAP continues to improve its ERP products to HANA technology gradually. One of the most critical product is that instead of the classic MRP, it now becomes a new product as “MRP Live“. For the benefit of HANA’s speed and efficiency, MRP Live is available.

Such changes and innovations have always had advantages and disadvantages as well. These changes are especially important for backend developers. The biggest advantage of MRP Live is speed and performance, the biggest disadvantage is the length of development time. Even for a simple customer demand, we may need to write dozens of lines of code. This situation will change according to needs, of course, but it seems that we will spend much more time for according to the previous development environment and language as known SAP GUI and ABAP. MRP live is fully developed with ABAP managed database procedure(AMDP) and also for enhancements AMDP BADIs is used for MRP Live HANA development with top-down approach.

Code Push Down for HANA Starts with ABAP Open SQL

What is Code Push Down?

One of the key differences for developing applications in ABAP for HANA is that you can push down data intense computations and calculations to the HANA DB layer instead bringing all the data to the ABAP layer and the processing the data to do computations. This is what is termed as Code-to-Data paradigm in the context of developing ABAP applications optimized for HANA.

Under the HANA hood of an ABAP Managed Database Procedure

I’ve been looking into ABAP managed database procedures for HANA recently and decided to take a look at what’s actually created under the hood in the HANA database when an AMDP is created.

I created a small test class in our CRM on HANA system with a method to read a couple of columns from the crmd_orderadm_h table using sqlscript. The method takes one input parameter IV_OBJECT_ID and has one export parameter ET_ORDER.

Getting started with Internet of Things Applications: Device Management

The world is talking about Internet of Things. IoT has become rapidly growing topic of discussion at workplace and among-st the tech savvy engineers. Well IoT is nothing but connecting any device which can be switched on and off with Internet.

Being a HANA consulant tried my hands on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform for IoT.