by Phil | Aug 31, 2011 | ABAP, Advanced Support
Not sure why but I felt today was a good day as any to address a topic I have been trying to get to for some time, the increasing use of BDC’s in standard application programs. What is a BDC? A little bit of background, a BDC which stands for Batch Data...
by AdvancedSupport | Nov 5, 2009 | Enterprise Project Management, SAP Business Analysis
Do you identify errors when designing your application? When developing a technical specification every analyst should know and account for the possible errors that can occur in an application. I think it’s pretty commonly known that no application should cause...
by AdvancedSupport | Nov 4, 2009 | Enterprise Project Management, SAP Business Analysis
I spent a afternoon with a good friend of mine who was having a hard time turning application requirements to a detailed design (I’m sure he is not the only one with this issue). We reviewed an example Software Requirements Specification that we use and once we...
by AdvancedSupport | Sep 8, 2009 | Enterprise Project Management, SAP Business Analysis
Over the years I have managed and/or been involved in every level of testing of applications known to man J , for most of our SAP projects we normally adopt the internal testing strategy dictated by our customer so it’s simple to say that every project is...
by AdvancedSupport | Sep 6, 2009 | Enterprise Project Management, Headline
Sometimes I feel like our disciple works in circles, what’s old is new etc. What I mean is after years of progress suddenly the discussion has turned to start to question whether the BA is needed and even whether requirements should be documented. Is it possible...
by AdvancedSupport | Aug 26, 2009 | Enterprise Project Management, NetWeaver
A while back I responded to a post on an ASUG forum with the question about how others handle the refresh of their development client and data for development and testing. It’s been a while and I couldn’t find the post but a recent CIO Insight article made...
by AdvancedSupport | Jul 21, 2009 | ABAP, Advanced Support, Enterprise Project Management
A customer of ours recently asked us to look into a problem they were having generating an accurate data report related to materials. This was a standard report and the functionality has been pretty solid for sometime. What we found was that at some point fields in...
by AdvancedSupport | May 21, 2009 | NetWeaver
As consultants we regularly work on many different SAP systems, since we may work on the same functionality from client to client we use an easy trick supported by SAPgui to get ourselves setup on a new system as quickly as possible. Of course if you like drilling...
by Phil | Apr 15, 2009 | Headline, Logistics Execution, Supply Chain
In today’s blog I want to talk about Supply Chain metrics. I bring this up today on the occasion that WERC has released one of my favorite studies, this is the annual study of Warehouse metrics. If you are not a WERC member I encourage you to join or at least...
by AdvancedSupport | Apr 7, 2009 | Enterprise Project Management
When you get a chance read the CIO Insight bullet points from a study on project management 10 truths about project planning which targets specifically the impact of a poor requirements process on project success. What surprises me about the results of this study is...
