Product Lifecycle Management Blog Posts by Members

Short Overview regarding Raw material compliance with EHS Classic

What does compliance means for raw material?What functional and technical aspects are of interest?What will be the future (e.g. SAP Product Compliance)?

Quo vadis PLM in SAP? Expert interview with Peter Vandrey (Cideon) and Benjamin Zorn (DSC)

SAP solutions for ERP and PLM have evolved significantly in recent years. For ERP, the focus is on the integration of SAP S/4HANA; the field of PLM has also been expanded with new possibilities and (cloud) functionalities. What does this mean for SAP...

How to Fix Duplicate Component Lines in IW32 , iw31

COPC-ETO-Scenario - Results Analysis: (07) POC Method Using Progress Version (132)

SAP Product Costing - ETO-Scenario - Results Analysis: (07) POC Method Using Progress Version (132)1. Illustration introduction2. Customizing details3. User Activities4. ReportProject Structure: CJ20N WBS Hierarchy Flow Calculation - Ex...

Mould Availability Stock based Liquid Metal Production Plan and Order Generation - In Foundry

Dear Team,The implementation of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is to be done, so as much SAP standard functions as possible will be adopted: below is a structured approach to map the client's business requirements to the SAP standard functionalities.Vertic...

IPPE Master Data Creation Process in - SAP S/4HANA

Hi SAPians,Introduction:Let's have an introduction and overview of the functionality of IPPE (Integrated Product and Process Engineering).This information is primarily utilized for products with several variations. The IPPE model allows the keeping a...

Sending Custom Emails in Digital Manufacturing Using SAP Cloud SDK

IntroductionIn SAP DM, email notifications can be sent to one or multiple users using the Create & Update Alert Services. To do this, it is sufficient to provide our data to the AlertNotification field, apart from 'IN_APP'. With a recent update to DM...

Harnessing Custom Notifications for Optimizing Single-User POD Utilization

IntroductionIn SAP Digital Manufacturing, notifications play a crucial role in various scenarios in the background. Whether it involves creating alerts, displaying messages on POD screens, or facilitating communication between different POD pages, th...

Managing PFAS with SAP: Coping with Missing Product Compliance Data

How happy are you with your supply chain's responsiveness in providing product compliance information on PFAS, REACH, or RoHS?Room for improvement? Don't worry, you are not alone. Hang in there and learn how to help yourself, leveraging your SAP syst...

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Business Objects 4.3 Upgrade from 4.2.9 -- License workflow

Hello,I'm going to be upgrading our 4.2.9 clustered environment to 4.3 (in-place). I am aware of the need for new licenses. What I'm unsure of is when I need to apply the licenses and the impact of not having licenses even if temporary. I've read ...

Integration of DMS and PM for Document Attachment

IntroductionIntegrating SAP DMS (Document Management System) with PM (Plant Maintenance) helps companies easily manage and connect important documents to their maintenance tasks, making it simpler for maintenance teams to find the right information, ...

Driving Sustainability Through Process Optimization and Process Mining

Discover how process optimization and process mining are revolutionizing sustainability in modern business. This article explores how these powerful tools enable companies to embrace circular design principles, reduce waste, and enhance resource effi...

Split Valuation in SAP MM

Introduction:Split valuation is a feature in SAP Material Management (MM) that enables companies to manage and assign different values to various segments of the same material within the same valuation area (such as a plant or company code). This fun...

Managing PFAS with SAP: Unlock Your Data Treasures

Discover how to unlock SAP data using an integrated and sustainable approach to handle PFAS. For insights into current PFAS regulations and their implications for your business, don't miss our initial article about PFAS Regulations and Business Chall...

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SAP ECTR for SAP S/4HANA 1.2.1 - What’s new in the new Release

This blog post presents four major highlights of the new SAP ECTR for SAP S/4HANA 1.2.1 release.The following topics are essential for future-proof PLM solutions: ERP-near PLM functions and processes, the integration of capabilities from external (cl...

Refurbishment process in PM/EAM

Introduction Refurbishment processRefurbishment is a strategic process aimed at revitalizing and restoring older or damaged assets to their optimal condition, ensuring prolonged usability and performance. Beginning with thorough assessment and plann...

About Product Compliance / On Premise Version 2023 / Introduction for beginners

What are the key terms to understand?What touchpoints are there?What is tricky to understand?About Contentetc.

OEE KPI Calculation report for discrete manufacturing in SAP Digital Manufacturing.

Title: OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)KPI Calculation report for discrete manufacturing in SAP Digital Manufacturing.Introduction SAP Digital Manufacturing provides important feature to create OEE KPI Calculation report for discrete manufactur...

Tracking labor and machine time parallelly in SAP Digital Manufacturing

In 24.05 release, SAP introduced new SAP Digital Manufacturing POD plugin Production time on / Production time off which refers to the duration during which a resource is actively engaged in producing a material, not including any idle time.In this b...

Integrating SAP Digital Manufacturing with Microsoft Teams: A Comprehensive Guide

SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud boasts powerful features that enable seamless integration with various platforms, including both SAP and non-SAP applications. This guide outlines the process of notifying workers via Microsoft Teams using the extensib...

Managing PFAS with SAP: Regulations and Business Challenges

PFAS make product compliance stewards sweat. Companies are at risk of getting fined, lose customers or reputation because of them. The good news for SAP customers:You have most of what you need for a good solution already availableYou can leverage ex...

Creating a dynamic graph to use as an SPC chart purposes

In this project, we aimed to create a dynamic graph to use as an SPC Chart, ["Fig. 1."]. In order to achieve this, we created a custom plugin to view the graph from the POD, custom tables in a cloud database to feed data to the graph, the process to ...

Why missing milestone button

I want to create the milestone billing plan

Extending SAP Digital Manufacturing with Azure, Part II: Applying the reference architecture to a visual inspection scenario

Part I of this blog series introduced a reference architecture for SAP Digital Manufacturing (DM) business process extensions on Azure. Part II applies this reference architecture to a visual inspection (VI) scenario that supports the production oper...

Extending SAP Digital Manufacturing with Azure, Part I: Reference architecture

SAP Digital Manufacturing (DM) helps manufacturers to optimize their production processes by connecting the business systems with the shop floor equipment. SAP DM provides global visibility across all plants and orchestrates the execution and monitor...

Auto Start & Complete With PCo In SAP Digital Manufacturing

Introduction SAP Digital Manufacturing enables data exchange between automation and DM via PCo. By using the Design Production Processes and Manage Automatic Triggers applications, we can automatically start and finish SFCs for orders with the help o...

Change Production in DMC

The change production feature is needed in Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to react quickly of unexpected business requirements which requires routing and bill of material (BOM) changes after Shop Floor Control (SFC) released or production star...

Shorten time to quote with a requirements-based quotation process - Part Two

Requirements-Management is commonly associated with the pure product development process. However, this established method can also be used to significantly enhance the evaluation of customer requirements as part of a request-for-quote or request-for...

SAP Enterprise Project Connector (EPC) is soon to be outdated. What is next?

SAP EPC is coming to the end of life. What is the future of SAP - Primavera - MPS integration?

Quo Vadis SAP PLM

In the past few years, there has been a lot of discussion about the current state and the future of SAP PLM. Since we often have these conversations in individual discussions with customers, I wanted to take the opportunity to make my point of view ...

How to add custom project element filters in SAP Portfolio and Project Management

As a continuation of my How-To series for custom development in the area of SAP PPM: How to work with field conditions in SAP Portfolio and Project Management How to add transient fields in SAP Portfolio and Project Management How to add custo...

External API / Web Service integration with SAP Digital Manufacturing - Demystified!

Hello Everyone, Recently I learnt few things about SAP DM integration so thought of sharing what little I learnt. This blog is about utilizing any third party API in SAP DM, to read data and post it against SFC using standard methods and SAP DM LCN...

Nitty-Gritty of SAP S/4HANA EHS : Environment Management - Regulatory and Permit Compliance Process & Integration for Financial Tracking with Maintenance Order & Internal Order

This blog provides a broad outline about "SAP S/4HANA EHS Regulatory and Permit Compliance Process", which is the crux of the organization`s compliance process to reduce operational risk in the organization. As part of this process, I will be walkin...

History of SAP® Product Compliance Applications

This blog was first published here. Over the years, SAP has innovated and expanded its solutions to meet the changing needs of businesses to comply with the latest product-related regulations. The term “Environment, Health and Safety” (EHS) Manageme...

Maintenance Order Print After TECO & Before Release

In this blog I have compiled my working and solution for standard Maintenance Order Shop Paper Print After TECO & Before Release. SAP offers us the Standard shop paper print of Maintenance Orders via Tcode IW3D/IW32, but it have some limitations tha...

Experts Reveal How Data Silos Slowly Disrupt Your Business and How to Avoid It

In a collaboration between LeverX, an SAP Gold Partner and Global Strategic Supplier, and an esteemed SAP expert, we are thrilled to announce the release of an enlightening article, "How Data Silos Slowly Disrupt Your Business and How to Avoid It." T...

SAP ECTR for SAP S/4HANA 1.2 - What’s new in the new major Release

This blog post introduces the top four highlights of the new major Release SAP Engineering Control Center for SAP S/4HANA 1.2. I am Dominik Maier, Senior Vice President Products & Development and Member of the Management Board at DSC Software AG. F...

Analyzing the Project Management Workstream in an S/4 HANA Implementation Project

When implementing SAP S/4 HANA, whether you are following the approach of Greenfield, Brownfield, or Bluefield, requires an investment in planning and effective project management to ensure a smooth transition to S/4 HANA. This article will provide a...

SAP EHS Dangerous Goods Management

IntroductionCurrently we can see some EHS-DG questions running here. May be it is the time to check the "DG" integration in the SAP processes.Starting position:We have these processes in the game:Create Sales OrderCreate DeliveryCreate TransportRegar...

Mass assignment of Inspection types QA08

Mass assignment of Inspection types QA08 Mostly SAP expert have an issue to assign inspection type at the time of upload or create new material. In this blog we are showing you in detail how can you assign inspection type and update "Avg Inspec...

Green, Yellow, and Red Indicator in QA32

Understanding the Green, Yellow, and Red Indicator in QA32: Master data settings in SAP In above image you can view indicator. Introduction: In the world of quality management, the QA32 transaction in SAP plays a crucial role in inspecting and pr...

Goods Issue, Goods Receipt, Yield and Scrap with partial or full quantity on Order POD and Post-Production Reporting POD for Process Industry in SAP Digital Manufacturing

Introduction SAP Digital Manufacturing provides important features where we can perform the Goods Issue, Goods Receipt, Yield and Scrap partially or full qty using Order POD and Post-Production Reporting POD for the process Industry. Sometimes as p...

Automatic component consumption in SAP Digital Manufacturing

Introduction SAP Digital Manufacturing provides important feature where you can consume the component during the SFC Complete automatically or consume the component automatically by separate activity.Sometimes we need to consume some components aut...

Dynamically Pass the parameter on POD Message in SAP Digital Manufacturing

Introduction SAP Digital Manufacturing provides important feature to display the POD message automatically during multiple action event call which is nothing but at web service call. This Action Event call is nothing but a hook point configuration ...

How to Design Production Processes for Pre-Complete Assembly check of Process Manufacturing in DM

How to Design Production Processes for Pre-Complete Assembly Check of Process Manufacturing in SAP DM Design Production Processes To design production processes without any coding skills DMC delivers the app Design Production Processes. The app hel...

Message Display on Operation POD automatically during nonconformance at NC Disposition Hook Point in SAP Digital Manufacturing

Introduction SAP Digital Manufacturing provides important feature to display the POD message automatically during nonconference at operation which is nothing but a NC Disposition Hook point. In SAP DM there is no any opportunity to configure the ho...

Tool Logging automatically and manually in SAP Digital Manufacturing

Introduction SAP Digital Manufacturing provides important feature which is tool management where we can schedule the tool, reserve the tool and tacking the usage of tool in efficient way to increase more productivity of resource and tool. Here we a...

Inspection lot result recording in SAP Digital Manufacturing

This document showcases how to use inspection lot result recording in SAP Digital Manufacturing for execution. In this blog post, I would like to share detailed information on how to create order with inspection lot, result recording in SAP DM and c...

How to consume a third-party Web Service within SAP Digital Manufacturing

Hello everybody! Last time, I showed you how to call SAP DM API’s through Node-RED. Today, I’d like to demonstrate how to easily interact and integrate a Node-RED backend with SAP DM using the “Design Production Processes” functionality. Pre-requi...

SFC Merge & Split in SAP Digital Manufacturing

This document showcases the feature and usage of Shop Floor Control (SFC) merge and split in SAP Digital Manufacturing for execution. In this blog post, I would like to share detailed information on how you can use SFC merge & split. Example is expla...