A practical, day-by-day walkthrough of predictive accounting in SAP S/4HANA Cloud — follow one fictional company through a single business week as sales orders, purchase orders and a service contract…
A practitioner walkthrough of a real-world SAP Integration Suite (CPI) iFlow that polls an Office 365 mailbox, validates supplier-emailed CSVs against S/4HANA, applies seven business rules, fires the…
A practitioner's glossary of fifty supply-chain and SAP planning terms — S&OP, IBP, demand planning, forecast, MAPE, MRP, MPS, DDMRP, safety stock, reorder point, ABC, XYZ, EOQ, MOQ, ADU, DLT,…
A practitioner's deep dive into Demand-Driven Replenishment in SAP S/4HANA — the bullwhip problem it solves, the Position-Protect-Pull framework, the four classifications (ABC, PQR, XYZ, EFG) that…
An end-to-end guide to Predictive Material and Resource Planning in SAP S/4HANA — what pMRP is, how it differs from classic MRP, the five-stage simulation loop, the four levers to fix capacity…
An example-driven walkthrough of Material Requirements Planning in SAP S/4HANA — the two planning approaches, the five steps the MRP run executes every time, backward scheduling, procurement types,…
The hub for our 6-part series on period-end closing in Product Cost by Period — how template allocation, revaluation, overhead, WIP, variances and settlement fit together, with a single map of the…
Part 1 of the period-end series: how template allocation moves process and activity-based costs from Overhead Controlling onto the product cost collector, driven by the costing sheet and overhead key.
Part 2 of the period-end series: how revaluation re-prices the activities you consumed from the planned price to the actual price of the period, debiting or crediting the cost object for the…
Part 3 of the period-end series: how actual overhead calculation applies costing-sheet surcharges to cost objects for indirect costs, with the offsetting credit to a cost center, internal order or…
Part 4 of the period-end series: how WIP values unfinished goods at target cost, how the capitalisation split works, and how WIP settles to Financial Accounting as inventory.
Part 5 of the period-end series: how variance calculation explains the order balance — target cost versions, input- and output-side variance categories, scrap and lot-size variances, and the variance…
Part 6 of the period-end series: how settlement posts WIP and variances — price control S vs V, the order balance to the Material Ledger, variance categories to CO-PA, and the price-difference…
A picture-led walkthrough of availability control (AVC) in SAP S/4HANA — how the budget check works, why commitments matter, and how to set it up for both internal orders (classic budget profile) and…
A deep, example-driven guide to internal orders in SAP S/4HANA Controlling — real vs statistical orders, order types and status management, the four order categories, the full life cycle, settlement,…
