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.
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.
