New Phase Model for the Maintenance Processes in S/4HANA Cloud

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

1. Introduction In S/4HANA Cloud Release 2011, SAP introduced the new concepts of ‘Process Phases’ to track the life cycle of the maintenance processes as an alternative to System and User statuses used previously. The ‘process phases’ have 2 levels of hierarchy viz. ‘Phase’ and ‘Sub-phase’ and are set up by SAP. You cannot change […]

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AVL in SAP Central Finance

SAP S/4HANA Finance, FIN (Finance), SAP S/4HANA

In this blog i will be discussing about the AVL functionality in SAP Central Finance. AVL stands for “Accounting View of Logistics information”. Accounting View of Logistics (AVL) is Central Finance-specific functionality in which logistical information is loaded and replicated from SAP source systems into Central Finance and stored in separate tables. Benefits AVL provides […]

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Propagating Original Start Date to Rehire with new employment.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Core

This blog is an workaround for a most frequently asked requirement from the Employee Central customers . Introduction: Employees’ original start date is a very important field in Employee Central as it is required in many calculations such as Benefits eligibility, Payroll, Time Account accruals. Background: In employee central, when you Rehire Inactive employee with […]

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SAP Master Data Integration service Business Partner configuration without using Default Logical Port on SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA

In this blog, I will go through the steps necessary to connect a SAP Master Data Integration service instance with a SAP S/4HANA On-premise system. While these steps can be applied to connect any other cloud systems with S/4HANA, this blog will primarily focus on integration with MDI service on SAP Business Technology Platform. I. […]

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AppGyver and SAP Business Technology Platform: a match made in heaven

SAP HANA Cloud

Overview In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to create an application in AppGyver, integrate it with services hosted in SAP Business Technology Platform to read some data from SAP HANA Cloud through SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, and then deploy to SAP BTP using Cloud Foundry and SAP Business Application Studio (the deployment […]

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