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Deletion of Old or obsolete output records from NAST table

NAST table is used to store all output condition records whenever the output is triggered. At times, Business requires to delete the obsolete or Old NAST records which are no longer required.  Archiving of the output records will reduce the load and increase the performance of system during processing of output condition records. To archive obsolete condition records, SAP has provided standard program  RSCLNAST to perform this activity. Ideally, business can schedule a batch job once every month to delete the older records as per the data retention date range or this can be done manually as well.

BRF+ S/4 HANA Output Management

BRF+ is the new output functionality provided in S/4 HANA. This new functionality, has it's own benefits where logo or addresses change doesn't require technical team but this has it's own limitations. BRF+ cannot be used if one of the following NAST transmission mediums is required: 8 Special function 9 Events (SAP Business Workflow) A Distribution (ALE) T Tasks (SAP Business Workflow) In this case, if business is inclined to use the above mentioned mediums then business has to be use NAST-based output management (NACE) along with BRF+ which SAP supports. In general, BRF+ can be widely used if business require to use print and email functionality.

[WM] Automatic conversion of Posting change notices to transfer order

If Quality management is enabled, stock posting from quality to unrestricted will be done from inspection lot. In this situation, There will be a case where business will take sample before batch release.If sample is good, then rest the stock will be posted to unrestricted stock. As per standard SAP functionality, Conversion from transfer requirement (TR) to transfer order (TO) will be done automatically only when full stock of inspection lot is moved in one go. If business consume some stock for sample, then auto conversion from TR to TO will not work as standard SAP functionality will not support for partial stocks. In this situation, We need to schedule a background Job for program - RLAUTA11 for auto conversion from TR to TO for partial stocks.

Stock Inconsistency Reports

Report: RM07KO01 - Stock consistency check between ML and IM Description : With the Stock Consistency Check report (RM07KO01), you can check the consistency of your stock data at company code level, valuation level, or material level. Possible errors in your stocks can thus be determined at an early stage before they cause major problems Transaction Code : CKMC - Consistency check between Material Master and Material Ledger

Avoiding background job overruns - SAP

Commonly, We schedule background job for every 5 min or so on periodically depends on the functionality of the program and data updates required. In this situation,there might be a situation where previous background job still continue to run even after next schedule due to data or some other reason. This will make two jobs of same program run parallel and might create locking or performance issues. To avoid such situation, We can add a step to the existing background job prior to the step of the actual program. The below mentioned program should run prior to the actual program execution.  This program will check and cancel the subsequent job of the next run if the program still runs before next execution. Program Name - RSBTONEJOB Note that the variant of this program should be maintained with same name as that batch Job name.

LTMC Activation - S/4 HANA

Both LTMC and LSMW are commonly used for migrating the data and both are available in S/4 HANA system. But however, Per comunication from SAP, LSMW will no longer be developed and  LTMC is the tool suggested by SAP going forward from S/4 HANA. Below are the few details of activating LTMC in S/4 HANA system : Feature – Data Migration Cockpit S4H Option – On-Premise Below are the activities need to be performed to activate LTMC : 1. Activate the service ' dmc_wda ' through SICF transaction  2. Maintain Host as below in the below path : -  To be maintain in individual system Host should contain SAP Logon pas IP address and the Host name displayed in the URL. Once the above steps are completed : Goto Transaction Code – LTMC to launch it.

SAP Retail Basics

Core component of SAP Retail is Retailing functionality which mainly covers SD,MM & WM. When Log on to SAP Retail, system will in general display SAP Easy Access menu meant for generic to Manufacturing domain but however if we require default screen to be displayed as Retail Easy Access  Goto User Own data ----> Goto Defaults  and enter W10T in Start Menu. Below are the Retail Terminologies commonly seen :    SAP Retail                                                                        R/3                                                                        Article ...