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• Use SAP Backflush functionality to automate production processes

  Companies save themselves headaches by automating production processes using SAP Backflush and Automatic Goods Receipt functions, writes Jawad Akhtar. Continue Reading

• Tap SAP Information Steward to see how BEx query changes affect reports

  Companies should use SAP Information Steward's Metadata Management tool to avoid 'broken' BI reports, writes SAP expert Don Loden. Continue Reading

• Tackle SAP master data templates in phases for better SAP ERP success

  Focusing on SAP master data templates twice before go-live can improve a project's chance of success, writes Jawad Akhtar. Continue Reading

• How can Failure Mode and Effects Analysis reduce risk?

  The Failure Mode and Effects Analysis tool can be used to prevent process and production failures within SAP ERP systems, writes Jawad Akhtar. Continue Reading

• How do I handle co-products, by-products in SAP ERP?

  Learn the difference between co-products and by-products in the manufacturing process, and how to handle each within a company's SAP ERP system. Continue Reading

• Ensure better standards with SAP Quality Certificates

  Companies can ensure higher standards when it comes to delivered and procured goods by deploying SAP Quality Certificates, writes Jawad Akhtar.Continue Reading

• Safeguard the SAP master data creation process with SAP ECM

  With SAP Engineering Change Management (SAP ECM) businesses can get a better handle on the master data creation process, expert Jawad Akhtar writes.Continue Reading

• Support resources key to SAP, hybris transition, say experts

  SAP will have to make sure hybris has all the support resources it needs to cover post-acquisition growth, according to experts.Continue Reading

• Cut inspection costs with the SAP QM module's DMR functionality

  Save time and money inspecting the quality of procured or produced materials with the SAP Dynamic Modification Rule (DMR), writes expert Jawad Akhtar.Continue Reading

• Get the most out of SAP ERP reports and features

  Smart manufacturers should consider taking advantage of the native SAP ERP reports in the logistics and supply chain modules, writes Jawad Akhtar.Continue Reading

• Join the SCN SapphireNow community

  Learn more about the the SCN SapphireNow community.Continue Reading

• Improve Imports process in SAP Materials Management with a workaround

  The Imports process in the SAP Materials Management procurement function is not as good as it should be. Here's how to fix it, writes Jawad Akhtar.Continue Reading

• Companies leveraging threat of third-party SAP support to cut costs

  SAP customers are using third-party vendors to help cut support costs, even if they don't actually end up using them to manage their SAP software.Continue Reading

• Use SAP Classification to bring sanity to SAP master data

  Managing SAP master data can be a headache, but it doesn't have to be, writes Jawad Akhtar.Continue Reading

• Photo firm ups sales by delving deeper into Ariba supplier network

  One of the nation's largest seller of photo and video equipment turned to the Ariba supplier network to connect with buyers it was missing out on before.Continue Reading