Flexible Integration with PP/DS for SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA

Flexible Integration with PP/DS for SAP S/4HANA is aimed at providing flexibility for a customer to choose between different ‘Scope Limitations’ with respect to Advanced Planning and Detailed Scheduling capabilities. It is designed to help in differentiating ownership of planning & scheduling capabilities between SAP S/4HANA PP, PP/DS for SAP S/4HANA and other external planning […]

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Supplier clustering using Machine learning on Invoice dataset – Proof of concept

SAP S/4HANA, MM Purchasing

Background: Last week, I was giving a demo to customer on “Supplier segmentation & evaluation” in area of procurement & sourcing in SAP S/4HANA ( on-premise). While explaining newly introduced feature purchasing categories via SAP FIORI app “Manage Purchasing Categories” , customer raised a very valid question. Customer question – We have a supplier base […]

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Exploring SAP Business Application Studio for low-code development and deploying a multichannel sample app to mobile

SAP Business Application Studio, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, SAP Fiori

In this blog post I want to showcase the new offering in a hands-on fashion, making use of a multichannel sample application that will be deployed into the cloud as well as on mobile. Prerequisites To get started, you’ll need a productive Cloud Foundry global account on SAP Business Technology Platform, and for the time […]

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Message retry using Process Direct and Data Store in SAP CPI

Cloud Integration

Introduction: Currently CPI version 6.20.20 doesn’t have inbuilt functionality to reprocess failed asynchronous messages. For the continuous business support in maintenance projects, it’s important to handle the failures (connection failures, message failures). There are many blogs available on retry using JMS queues, but with the limitation on the JMS queues for each tenant its more […]

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PM/CS: Configurable Task List – Seasonal Operations

PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

1. Introduction Objective: to create a Configurable General Task List that can manage seasonal operations. The basic process is shown below: In this scenario we will create a configurable general task list with selectable operations based on the month of the year that the order was planned. In the image below we can see the […]

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PM/CS: Configurable Task List without using the Equipment Configuration Tab

PLM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)/Plant Maintenance (PM)

1. Introduction In a traditional configurable general task list process you need to create many objects in SAP such as material configuration profile, task list configuration profile, equipment configuration etc. This process can be simplified, but it does require some ABAP programming which can allow for more complicated selection scenarios. The basic process is shown […]

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