Administrator Industry Observation: Central Finance, Shared Services, and Finance Data Platforms Central Finance is often discussed as a way to bring financial data from multiple systems into one place. That is true, but it is only the starting point. If the project stops at replication, the busi... Industry Observation SAP Reporting / Analytics Feb 26, 2024
Administrator Industry Observation: What Production Confirmation Reveals About S/4 Finance and Costing Production confirmation is often treated as a manufacturing execution action. From a finance and costing perspective, it is also a point where material consumption, activity quantity, yield, scrap, WI... Industry Observation SAP Finance / Cost Sep 15, 2023
Administrator Product Update: SAP Optimization Solution Package 2.0 After summarizing project experience across many SAP implementations, the SAP Optimization Solution Package 2.0 was organized as a set of reusable scenarios. The purpose is not to sell a list of funct... Product Release SAP Core Process Sep 4, 2023
Administrator Industry Observation: Cost Center Budget Control From Function to Management Boundary Cost center budget control is easy to discuss as a function, but harder to use as a management mechanism. The system can warn or block spending, but it cannot decide by itself what level of control is... Industry Observation SAP Finance / Cost Jun 30, 2023
Administrator Industry Observation: Why MRP and ATP Are Harder Than They Look Many companies face the same contradiction: inventory is high, yet planners and buyers are busy chasing shortages every day. From the system side, MRP appears to be running, but the supply chain still... Industry Observation SAP MRP / Planning May 29, 2023
Administrator Industry Observation: Seven Practical Issues in Purchase Order Approval Purchase order approval is often discussed as a workflow topic, but in SAP it is also a very concrete configuration and system-behavior topic. Many approval problems come from details that are easy to... Industry Observation SAP Core Process Apr 20, 2022
Administrator Industry Observation: Procurement Price Management Is a Cost and Settlement Problem Procurement price management is often treated as master data maintenance, but its impact is much larger. Timely and accurate purchase prices affect standard cost estimation, actual cost accounting, in... Chemical and New Materials Consumer Goods Industry Observation SAP Finance / Cost Apr 2, 2022