There’s a tradeoff in SAP implementation that forces users to choose between standardization and customization. SAP S/4HANA focuses on standardization while still trying to support integration from third-party providers. By standardizing the processes within SAP S/4HANA and extending that standardization to third-party add-ons, the software suite makes it easier and faster to adopt cloud innovations as they become available. Experts in the field refer to this thinking as a “cloud mindset.” It’s also colloquially termed “keeping the core clean,” meaning that their interaction with third-party plugins does not taint the core services. SAP Activate was developed to help businesses keep their core clean and create a cloud mindset for their SAP installations. Industry best practices for this process follow, underlining SAP Activate’s approach to keeping the core clean.
Friday, 29 April 2022
Thursday, 28 April 2022
Serial Number Management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
You can use serial number management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Warehouse Management to identify and track individual products in your warehouse, from goods receipt to goods issue. For products with serial numbers, it is easy to track, even retrospectively, on which date it was delivered from which supplier, who performed the quality inspection, who moved this product, when this was done, and when it was packed and sent to the customer.
A serial number is a series of characters that have been assigned to each product in the warehouse so that it remains separate and are identified in the warehouse system. You can use serial numbers up to a length of 18 characters in an SAP ERP system.
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics: An Overview
In this blog post I will discuss the overview of SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics which is one of the key innovations of S/4. It is a collection of SAP Fiori tiles in SAP S/4HANA that enable real time operational reporting in your transactional system. There is no ETL (Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading) and batch processing required, compared to traditional reporting landscapes involving ERP and data warehouse systems. Embedded Analytics uses SAP Fiori as the front-end user interface and SAP has delivered standard content known as Fiori analytical apps for various functional areas. Standard content can be leveraged right out of the box as an accelerator for your implementation and can also be personalized and extended based on business requirements.
Why should I use SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics?
◉ Business Innovation through Radical Simplification
◉ Agility and Creativity for the Business
◉ Scale and Trust for the Enterprise
Monday, 25 April 2022
RISE with SAP to transform your business
Introduction
In recent years, business transformation has become a hot issue and a trending topic in the SAP community. Let us dive into this blog post to find more sense on the matter.
What is business transformation?
A business may undergo a transformation for a variety of reasons. They could be the result of new technology, market shifts, low profit and turnover, resulting in cost cutting, or a merger and acquisition. These factors are critical for a company’s success, necessitating a change in the business ecosystem.
Saturday, 23 April 2022
How to Find Which Structure is Included in Which Structure?
Introduction
In Every Projects you go there will be requirement to enhance the Standard Screen to add some new Custom Fields. The general approach you do use Append Structure and add your Custom Fields. Sometime while analysing it may happen that you have the Append Structure name but you cannot find the Actual Structure it is attached to. You must be thinking Where-used list should help you find out but No it does not.
Solution:
Let us first analyze the issue. Suppose the below structure I am looking to find where is attached.
Friday, 22 April 2022
Maintaining business roles in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Introduction
This blog post describes applicable for S/4HANA Cloud system administrators scenario: during the system implementation it is necessary to create a new business role by the business key user request. In the same time, business key user request includes name of the app, to which it is necessary to set up access, but not the business role name itself. As an example we will take the app “Display Dunning History”.
Identifying business role name
To identify business role name, we will use Fiori apps library. In there we need to to to “All apps for SAP S/4HANA” -> All apps and enter then in search field name of the target app. In our case it is “Display dunning history”:
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Key and unique building blocks of SCC Multi-Tiered Subcon Collaboration Process
In this blog, I want to share my experience and learnings with multi-tiered subcontracting collaboration process using my apparel client’s example. I will attempt to focus on the unique functional aspects that needs attention during any implementation of this process. Let me start with overview of the business case and the process adopted by business. Later, I will deep dive into the key building blocks and its details.
Business Case and Process adopted with SCC
One of my apparel clients in USA is sourcing garments from China’s manufacturer. A special fabric is used in manufacturing of specific silhouettes of garments. This fabric is sourced from Ethiopian (East Africa) supplier. In this case my client, was looking for drop shipment process for special fabric from Ethiopian supplier to Chinese manufacturer to save transportation time and space in their own warehouse. Chinese manufacturer was provided the visibility of the fabric order via manual spreadsheets and e-mails, so that he can plan the production and subsequent shipments accordingly.
Monday, 18 April 2022
Delivery Time Calculation for Summarized JIT Call with “CYCLE”
Solution Overview
As you know SAP KANBAN solution have provided external procurement function which can issue summarized JIT Call document to suppliers for fulfillment. it is definitely containing delivery date and time in the header information on summarized JIT Call documents, and those can be calculated by SAP standard JIT calculation profile configuration also. but during the solution delivery, you will be facing the “CYCLE” issues which was broadly and deeply operated on Japan automotive OEM and their suppliers who running KANBAN in factory.
Friday, 15 April 2022
Role of Migration Server/Import Server in Brownfield implementation-RISE with SAP, S/4HANA Cloud,private edition
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
DMO: BWoH: From SAP Netweaver BI 7.0 to SAP Netweaver 7.5 BI on HANA {Technical preparation and execution}
Summary of what we achieved: We have recently migrated and upgraded the BW/BI system from Netweaver 7.0 to Netweaver 7.5 using the SAP’s robust tool SUM 2.0’s DMO feature for one of our customer. The database size was nearly 3 terabyte and the resultant HANA database was around 250 Gigabyte.
The existing infrastructure was having database as Oracle 11.2.0.2.0 and Operating System HPUX ia64.
So if anyone is going to work on a similar assignment, can refer to this blog post for insight.