Change Record in S4HANA – A New Look to ECR/ECO in S4HANA

PLM Quality Management (QM), MAN Production Planning (PP), PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)

As most of the folks are aware of the ECR and ECO functionality for the change Management for the BOM, Master recipe, Material Master etc. This functionality was phased out in S4/HANA, and Engineering Record was introduced. This too had some things missing like analyzing the impact etc., so from HANA 2020 SAP introduced Change […]

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Convert Repetitive Manufacturing into Discrete Manufacturing Process

MAN Production Planning (PP), MM (Materials Management), PLM Quality Management (QM), SAP S/4HANA, MAN Material Requirements Planning

Below are the important steps to convert repetitive manufacturing processes into discrete manufacturing processes: Delete all the unnecessary demand and run MRP. So that all the open planned orders will be deleted from the system. Finish all the production bookings in MFBF, so that there’s no more cancellation. Ensure all the reprocessing records are processed […]

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Charge vendors for non-compliance or issues identified during GR via SD

PLM Quality Management (QM), SAP Supplier Relationship Management

Introduction: In this post, I will elaborate on how to charge suppliers for non-compliances or issues found after an inspection via SD. Business process overview: Once goods receipt is posted in SAP if the material/article master has inspection activated, then SAP will create an inspection lot to be processed for that PO line item. If […]

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