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21 articles
Service with Advanced Execution (SwAE) in SAP S/4HANA
What Service with Advanced Execution is in SAP S/4HANA: how service contracts, orders and execution order items create maintenance orders, and how the process is billed.
Read article →Service contracts in SAP S/4HANA Service
What a service contract is in SAP S/4HANA Service: covered objects and price agreements, periodic versus order-based billing, and how contract determination works.
Read article →Resource-related billing and the DIP profile in SAP S/4HANA
How resource-related billing converts actual service-order costs into invoices in SAP S/4HANA, and how the DIP (Dynamic Item Processor) profile controls the translation.
Read article →Maintenance notifications in SAP S/4HANA
What maintenance notifications are in SAP S/4HANA, the standard request, malfunction and activity types, catalog coding, and the notification-to-order flow.
Read article →Technical structure and objects in SAP S/4HANA (functional location & equipment)
What the SAP S/4HANA technical structure is: functional locations versus equipment, how the hierarchy carries cost and history, and how to set it up.
Read article →The equipment master in SAP S/4HANA maintenance
What the SAP equipment master holds, how serialized equipment links to material and stock, and how install/dismantle builds an asset usage history.
Read article →Stock transport orders (STO) in SAP S/4HANA
What a stock transport order is in SAP S/4HANA, intra-company versus cross-company STOs, with or without delivery, and how stock in transit works.
Read article →Document information records (DIR) in SAP S/4HANA
What a document information record is in SAP DMS, how it links drawings and manuals to equipment, functional locations and orders, and how versioning and status work.
Read article →Maintenance checklists in SAP S/4HANA
What maintenance checklists are in SAP S/4HANA Asset Management, how they are set up as reusable master data on task lists, and how technicians execute them digitally.
Read article →Completion confirmations on SAP maintenance orders
What a completion (time) confirmation is on an SAP maintenance order, partial versus final confirmation, how it is entered, and why it drives actual cost and history.
Read article →Lean services and service entry sheets in SAP maintenance
How lean services procure external work on SAP maintenance orders, planned versus unplanned services, and how the service entry sheet (SES) confirms work before invoicing.
Read article →Refurbishment of spare parts in SAP S/4HANA
How SAP refurbishment works for repairable spare parts: split valuation by condition, the refurbishment order (IW81), and internal versus external refurbishment.
Read article →Planned and preventive maintenance in SAP S/4HANA
How SAP S/4HANA handles planned and preventive maintenance: the maintenance order, the maintenance plan and strategy, cycles and the call horizon.
Read article →Resource Scheduling (RSH) in SAP S/4HANA maintenance
What Resource Scheduling (RSH, scope item 43R) adds in SAP S/4HANA Asset Management, when maintenance teams need it, and when standard planning is enough.
Read article →Planning buckets in SAP S/4HANA maintenance
What planning buckets are in SAP S/4HANA Asset Management, the difference between operational and event-based buckets, and how planners use them to prepare the backlog.
Read article →Managing purchase contracts in SAP S/4HANA Fiori
How to create and maintain purchase contracts in SAP S/4HANA Fiori: from template, MPS or Excel, with time-dependent price conditions and mass change.
Read article →Model Product Specification (MPS) in SAP S/4HANA
What a Model Product Specification (MPS) is in SAP S/4HANA procurement, how it is reused across areas, and how it converts into purchase contracts.
Read article →Lean services in SAP S/4HANA service procurement
What lean services is in SAP S/4HANA service procurement, how services are modelled as products, and why it simplifies master data versus the classic service master.
Read article →Item hierarchies in SAP S/4HANA purchase contracts
What item hierarchies are in SAP S/4HANA purchase contracts, how the structure copies into follow-on documents, and the irreversible customizing to watch for.
Read article →The maintenance order phase model in SAP S/4HANA
How SAP S/4HANA structures the maintenance process into nine phases, how subphases map to system statuses, and what phase control codes do.
Read article →SAP S/4HANA Asset Management scope items explained (4HH, 4HI, 4WM, 4VT, 43R)
The SAP S/4HANA Asset Management standard scope-item family explained, how to choose between reactive, proactive, overhead, improvement and resource scheduling, and a common project pitfall.
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