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Tariffs can hit all kinds of Mill Products businesses, but exporting steel and aluminum to the US are probably the most prominent examples.An interesting approach to coping better with tariffs was thought by Sujeet Acharya from SAP: Use SAP Supply an...

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While already delivered by end of 2023, this is a relevant topic for Mill Products industries, and I haven't seen this being rolled out already: One of the big highlights of SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS01 release is the ability to use Batch specific Unit of ...

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Hi, I'm Alfred Becker, a product manager at SAP, and I'm responsible for all SAP solutions relating to forest products, paper and packaging industries. I'd like to share some thoughts on digital transformation in the paper & packaging industry, for e...

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Customers for food packaging products rely on Illinois-based Pactiv LLC as a one-stop shop for all their cardboard, aluminum, plastic, foam, molded-fiber, and pressware packaging and catering materials. Having grown by acquisition over several decade...

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See how a subsidiary of giant Sappi deployed SAP ActiveEmbedded offerings to update financial processes in its SAP ERP application and prepare for digital transformation to the SAPS/4HANA Finance solution. Enriched mobile reporting and autom...

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Hi, I am very sorry but this document -and even its successor- are outdated. They refer to SAP products which are not offered, hence, these documents are not available anymore. Currently, there is no replacement planned for.Best regards, Alfred

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Yes, I think it was solved as he wrote: "I found the the issue, it was due to limitations and restriction on order set as per SAP standards". The link to sap.help that was provided doesn't open anymore, as it refers to an outdated release. But the do...

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I can only second Stefan: Costs occur on initial orders and not on the combined order (after settlement). For example, you can combine operations only. Of course, the initial order can have further operations and needs to be settled one day. Thus ...

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Hi Ashok, "Mill Products" includes industries like metals, paper, and textiles -> companies who operate so called mills and who produce configurable products like sheets or rolls. Flour mills would fall under CP or Agri segment, if I'm not mistak...

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Batch Specific Unit Measure can help only once batches were created. But I understood your issue occurs during planning phase already. Material characteristics can describe the requirement but also the valuation (of existing batches). I talk about...

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A new way to respond to tariffs...

SAP EWM can handle Batch Specific Unit of Measure!

The Intelligent Enterprise for Paper and Packaging Business - Part 1 of a series of 4 articles

Pactiv: How To Build a Thriving One-Stop Shop from Multiple Trade Spend Systems?

Sappi: How Do You Build a Finance System for the Enterprise of the Future?

Re: Edition 2017 is now available: Whitepaper on Digital Transformation in Paper & Packaging

Re: Combination Order DIMP, error "No order selected"

Re: Cost Calculation on Combined Order (DIMP)

Re: Need list of Flour Mills Customers using SAP globally

Re: APO alternative unit of measure conversion based on characteristic value