Administrator Industry Observation: Centralized and Intercompany Procurement Are Not Just Organization Design Centralized procurement is often described as an organization model: one purchasing team negotiates and places orders for multiple plants or companies. In real projects, the harder part is usually not... Industry Observation SAP Core Process Oct 21, 2025
Administrator Industry Observation: Why Subcontracting and Operation Outsourcing Are Easy to Design Incorrectly Subcontracting and operation outsourcing both involve external resources, but they should not be forced into the same process model. The difference is not only terminology. It affects material movemen... Industry Observation SAP Core Process Aug 27, 2025
Administrator Industry Observation: Purchasing BOM Scenarios and Solution Boundaries A purchasing BOM is sometimes introduced as a quick way to make procurement more detailed. That is not always a good reason. If the business only needs a commercial item, adding component structure ma... Industry Observation SAP Core Process Jun 12, 2025
Administrator Industry Observation: Why Intercompany Sales Has Long Been a SAP Implementation Challenge Intercompany sales looks simple in process diagrams: one company sells to the customer, another company delivers, and internal settlement follows. The implementation difficulty comes from the fact tha... Industry Observation SAP Core Process Mar 18, 2025
Administrator Industry Observation: Choosing Between Greenfield, Brownfield, Rollout, Conversion, and Migration SAP implementation discussions often start with familiar labels: Greenfield, Brownfield, Rollout, Conversion, Migration, and so on. These words are useful shortcuts, but they are not decisions by them... Industry Observation SAP Core Process Dec 6, 2024
Administrator Product Update: Making SAP Easier to Use Without Throwing Away Its Strength SAP is still one of the strongest enterprise management systems in the world, but many companies have not used it well. One common complaint is user experience: screens are complex, fields are too man... Data / Platform Product Release SAP Core Process Oct 14, 2024
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: 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