OData Service and SAP Fiori: A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Building a Custom UI5 Application Using MM Data

This integrated example of how to build an SAP Fiori application provides a step-by-step approach for how to transfer SAP materials management data onto a mobile device. This real-world business case, which is similar to any user’s Open Data Protocol (OData) service request, illustrates the entire process: covering the app creation, required services, publishing, and the app deployment.

Europeans Are Under Pressure to Centralize, While North Americans Are Demanding Agility in Their ERP Cloud Strategy

In a recent research paper, SAPinsider explored what was driving SAP customers' ERP cloud strategy. The responses included customers from across the globe, but we found significant and interesting differences in what is driving the approaches of customers from Europe and North America. This article discusses: the different influences that are driving cloud strategy in each region; how that is impacting their ERP cloud strategy; and how SAPinsiders can strengthen their ERP cloud strategy.

Tips, Tricks, and New Features with SAP HANA Calculation Views

Joerg Boeke explains how to use SAP HANA calculation views and procedures as data providers for complex calculation views. He explains the concept of graphical joins versus SQL Script-based joins in procedures being fed to calculation views. Step by step he demonstrates the new modeling concept and its advantages to cut down load times as well as remodeling phases.

Quickly Resolve SAP HANA Authorization Errors and Issues

See how to activate tracing to resolve authorization errors in SAP HANA. You then can troubleshoot authorization errors related to repository role activation, SQL privileges, and analytical privileges.

SAP S/4HANA 1610 Material Ledger Actual Costing: Understand the Fundamental Changes and the Impact on Conversion

Learn and understand the massive changes in material ledger actual costing with SAP S/4HANA 1610. See how the technical and functional changes to this version of SAP S/4HANA affect organizations that use actual costing in a source system and are migrating from earlier SAP S/4HANA releases to SAP S/4HANA 1610.

Planning Your SAP NetWeaver Upgrade Strategy

SAP NetWeaver serves as the technology foundation for many SAP customer landscapes. With maintenance ending for older SAP NetWeaver releases still in use at some customer sites, now is the time to move to a newer version that will meet modern business needs and pave the way to adopting innovations such as SAP S/4HANA. This article helps you make a strategic plan for your organization by providing a concise, comprehensive overview of SAP’s current maintenance strategy for SAP NetWeaver.

Enhanced ABAP Development with Core Data Services (CDS)

With the advent of SAP HANA, a new data modeling infrastructure called core data services (CDS) has been introduced by SAP to simplify how developers define semantically rich data models. Read on to learn the concepts behind CDS and how it works in ABAP development processes, and walk through a step-by-step guide on using CDS with SAP’s development toolset.

Solving Day-to-Day Delivery Issues While Processing Stock Transport Orders

Common delivery issues occur when working with stock transport orders. Review several business scenarios that illustrate how to identify and then resolve the delivery problems.

Inside the Value of the SAP S/4HANA for Financial Products Subledger Solution

Digital transformation is paving the way for insurance companies to modernize their processes. Learn how Swiss Re, one of the world’s largest wholesale insurance and reinsurance providers, has partnered with SAP to develop and test its SAP S/4HANA for Financial Products Subledger (FPSL). Discover how the synthesis of Swiss Re’s deep business expertise and SAP’s technological know-how has facilitated rapid delivery of the FPSL product, which already comes with rich functionality built in. 

Dynamic Safety Stock Management

An organization’s strategic inventory policy and stocking strategies drive aggregate level inventory management (i.e., ABC/XYZ/LMN, etc. classification) which in turn drives item level inventory management. One of the most effective ways to perform item level inventory management on high volume and low complexity products is by using Dynamic Safety Stock coverage profiles on SAP material masters.

Inventory specialists and planners are responsible for interpreting key fields related to coverage profile configurations and screens within the Dynamic Safety Stock solution, however most planners find it challenging to interpret Stock Requirements List (MD04) screen results.

Inventory specialists spend a significant amount of time performing continual reviews and updates on lot size and safety stock parameters at an SAP material master level, making the ability to interpret MD04 results an essential skill for aligning item level inventory management policies with business goals.