I want to see the % of Sales Orders whose cycle time (Order to Cash) deviated by more than 10% of ‘acceptable’ cycle time. Where can I see it? 1) Write a simple ABAP report using information from VA05 and FBL5N. Any developer can do this for under 50$ and 1 day. 2) Develop a...
Q: How do I circumvent SAPs Digital Access License? A: Ethically you can’t. Technically you can use SFTP. Upload CSV files via AL11 and create whatever documents you want to. Ensure the jobs are scheduled by a dialog user. (just a way of saying a human did it as an act of ignorance) Q: What...
Q: Why should I use SAP TM? (Transportation Management) when I have basic shipping capabilities in SAP ERP / S/4HANA? A: It depends on – What you are selling and shipping – Your desperation to shave an extra cent off shipping costs. – How competent and resourceful is your 3PL. If you are selling soaps...
Q: What Options Exist in SAP to implement Spare Parts Supply Chain ‘planning’ (planning and replenishment) solution? A: Perhaps a combination of IBP, IoT, Predictive Maintenance (PMS) and MRP/MM can be used to build a working solution. or if you are still using APO SPP, and it works well. The trouble with Spare parts demand...
Q: My current ‘machine efficiency’ is almost 75% (available 75% of the time). I have 15 SKUs (identical by content) in all to make and sell with a total Daily demand of about 20000 units with a standard deviation/demand variability of 0.2. The available capacity is 30000 units/day. What will be my practical best-case capacity...
Q: My Production is often delayed. Every time they (the ‘factory guys’) have an answer at the nth hour. They blame me for bad planning. I am just a new joiner post my MBA. How can I analyze the ‘bottlenecks’ on my own? A: For a start your production order itself may have been scheduled...
How did VW Europe end up with so much inventory? – Is it really that bad? – What were the Supply Chain Pundits in this and that Tech with 300-page resumes doing? For a start they were hoping the demand at least returns to pre-covid19 levels ~16 million cars but the sales declined. Not their...
Cutting through the tech mambo Jambo of BTP. CAP, RAP, CPI, UI5. Developers just can’t explain anything visually with examples. Q: Why both CAP (Cloud Application Programming) and RAP (REST Application Programming)? Why not a unified development approach analogous to good old ABAP’er doing everything? A: CAP happened because SAP needed their own ‘full stack’...
Digitization is not the same as Digital Transformation which is another mouthful of a phrase that might mean something in Elbonian! . Look at these initiatives separately. Do not club it all under ‘Digital Transformation’. Big Consulting firms get away with it by packing everything together. Because they are Gods. They cannot be questioned. They...
Q: I bought a ton of SAP software. I do not know why. I do not even know if they work and who uses it and how. What can I do to get some business value out of my SAP investments? My BW system was last refreshed in 2022. No one knew those data extraction...
