An SAP recommended book for SAP Certification – this should be more than enough to convince people to buy a book. On the flip side, it created a hype and sets the bar really high. Written by Puneet Asthana and... Continue Reading →
ALE is used to modify Master data. It becomes important to assess the log entries periodically to understand how frequently the data is changing and whether any system related scale up is needed or not. Change Pointers are those log... Continue Reading →
In a previous post we talked about putting an infinite loop in code to debug programs running in background. However, sometimes it is a little cumbersome to go into debugging mode. An alternative to see if a code is working... Continue Reading →
Polymorphism literally means multiple forms. In world of SAP, it stands for implementation of different methods of different subclasses inherited from a same parent behaving differently. It facilitated same functionality on different objects resulting in different results. Let’s get back... Continue Reading →
Consignment is a widely used Order to Cash process which is conceptually different from generic sales process. Not only from sales, it is different even from logistics and finance perspective. Since it is widely used by businesses, it is a... Continue Reading →
Every company has vendors for supplies and services. Consider Samsung's television department. For the remote control devices, Samsung needs AAA batteries. Either Samsung manufactures them or ask a vendor to provide the batteries. Assume Samsung Purchasing department follows the latter... Continue Reading →
An Idoc consists of three types of records – Control Records – It contains data vital for an Idoc processing in a sender and recipient system like type and direction of Idoc, sender/receiver port and type of partner, Idoc status... Continue Reading →
Term IDoc stand for Intermediate Document and it is an SAP format widely used by non-SAP systems to connect with an SAP system. There is a Portuguese soccer player and a Roman coach who don’t understand each other’s language. They... Continue Reading →
Picture this. In about 30,000 programs in system, checking on wherever word ‘Kennedy’ is hardcoded and if so, it had to be replaced with ‘Johnson’. It was done for 5 programs and nobody remembers them. To scan string (even regular... Continue Reading →
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