The term “backorder” is common across most industries. They are also the bane of most customer service organizations who are often caught in between struggling processes and angry customers. In this two part series, I’ll discuss how to recognize an SAP backorder issue, approaches to identify sources, and how SAP can help. Let’s explore SAP backorders!
I make a lot of trips to the home improvement store throughout the year. Unfortunately, many of my trips are necessary because I neglected to put an important item in my cart on a previous trip. If only there was a way for the store clerk to prompt to purchase additional items related to those…
Inventory. It’s difficult to think of a single topic more important to more people than this. Buyers, Customer Service, and Production Planners all care about what’s available and what isn’t. And, of course, there’s the warehouse personnel that keep everything flowing whose lives revolve around inventory. For most situations, a quick stock overview is sufficient,…
It’s not uncommon for me to receive questions regarding date fields on SAP Sales Orders. That should not be surprising considering that users will be confronted by no less than 10 date fields during normal order maintenance. That number can rise to more than 15 depending on how you slice the numbers. In this article,…
Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to spend some time with SAP Screen Personas 2.0, a web-based alternative to SAP GUI offering some powerful tools to beautify and enhance classic SAP screens. This post is dedicated to sharing some impressions of the tool. Read on to learn more.
While researching solutions for a client, I learned quite a bit about SAP’s rounding capabilities. In my experience, I haven’t encountered a situation where this EXACT functionality would be necessary, but I’m sure it will come in handy for a few of you folks out there. Let’s find out a bit more about SAP Rounding…
Confession time: I have a short list of pet peeves. For those that know me, that may not come as a surprise. One of those pet peeves is poorly worded email. In particular, I’m referring to professional or business related emails. I’ve decided to publish a new series on my blog picking on recruiting emails…
My clients’ pricing procedures come in all shapes and sizes — from the bizarrely complex to Spartan simplicity. I also find a huge variance in the number of procedures. I was in a system the other day whose procedures numbered in the DOZENS. All of this got me to thinking about the standard SAP pricing…
That’s right! I’ve taken the content from my SAP SD Reference Guide and posted it online. From now on, it will be accessible through the nav menu at the top of the screen. Or — what the heck — I’ll just post a quick link right here for you lazy folks. Enjoy.
As IT consultants, we deal with challenges daily. Of those, the more frustrating ones can be those challenges which seem completely out of our control. Office politics, silo-building, and power struggles most certainly fall into this category. And as much as I would like to retreat to the comfort of my desk to do something…
