New GM1724 requirements for 2018 templates available
GM recently advised suppliers that it is implementing a new warehouse management system. To support the new implementation, the company is revising its standard for product labeling from suppliers. The GM1724 standards include these standard labels: GM1724a -...
Integrating a weight scale to SAP
When packing handling units for shipping, or processing inbound handling units, it's common to weigh them and post this value to SAP. We often see people manually entering weights into an entry screen. Using our AdvancePack solution, desktop connected scales are used...
Create a SAPscript form from an ITF file
We used to create complex labels by creating a new SAPscript form based on an ITF file that we received or generated in an external tool. Now that the tools are better, this process is not very common. However, a recent customer request inspired us to explain what...
Leading practices for persistent classes
When working with persistent classes in SAP, many developers come across confusing behavior that perhaps should be considered bugs. I'll explain our leading practice for persistent class development that should simplify your work in this area. When planning your...
Here’s how NOT to justify moving your data to the cloud
You're probably aware that the U.S. is the most litigious country in the world. Over breakfast today, I was reading an article touting the benefits of cloud-based computing (aren't they all?). The comments from one executive were interesting and really gave me pause....
Engineered to be worse
When I'm out and about, I pay close attention to the processes that are used in every aspect of our daily lives. My friends sometimes think it's annoying, but I have also imagined some of our best process innovations for customers through these observations. As...
Leading practices – a place for everything and everything in its place
This is the first in a new series of blog posts on leading practices we've observed in best-in-class facilities. I thought we would start with the basics. Many of you might remember years ago when the Dymo label maker was popular. I had an assistant at the time who...
Installing NetWeaver CE
I started yesterday morning with what I thought would be a quick process of installing NetWeaver CE on one of our developer's PCs. After a couple of hours of reading documentations to determine what I needed, the process made me wonder if SAP purposely makes...
Security: How to copy a user role across clients or instances
When setting up testing for users before delivering a solution, we always validate security roles. We often find that roles in quality and training environments can get out of sync with roles in production. The leading practice is, of course, to ensure that roles are...
How to copy an IDOC across SAP systems
A common task we deal with in EDI support is the need to test changes we make to IDOCS. In most cases, outbound IDOCS are easily generated via standard applications. For inbound IDOCS, we typically prefer to perform testing with samples of real-life documents from a...