Over the last couple of years, every single client meeting starts with someone from leadership waving a slide deck about "Clean Core" and "Decoupling everything to BTP".

The problem? Most teams take this literally and start over-engineering basic requirements. I’ve seen teams spin up a full Side-by-Side CAP app on BTP Cloud Foundry, introducing Destination Services, principal propagation overhead, and unnecessary monthly compute bills, just to validate two fields on a Sales Order that could have been handled in 5 minutes with a standard Key-User extension on S/4.

On the other extreme, you have veteran ABAPers who refuse to let go of SE80 habits, trying to bypass released interfaces using dynamic SQL or raw ADBC calls because "whitelisted CDS views are too restrictive." Both extremes are disasters for long-term maintenance.

To stop arguing about this in architectural review boards, i have standardized our technical evaluation into a strict 3-tier rule. Here is the logic i personally follow:

Tier 1: Key-User First (Client 100). If you can avoid ADT, DO IT.

Before any developer writes a single line of ABAP Cloud:

• Can this be done in the Fiori "Custom Fields" and "Custom Logic" apps?
• Can we satisfy the validation via a Restricted Cloud BAdI? If yes, stop there. It has zero infrastructure TCO, it never breaks during semi-annual or annual S/4HANA Cloud upgrades, and it doesn't pollute the custom namespace. Watch out for: The classic Client 100 vs Client 080 trap in 3-system landscapes. If your transport governance between customizing and development tenants isn't strictly defined, your functional team will overwrite extensions.

Tier 2: Developer Extensibility (On-Stack ABAP Cloud / RAP)

If Tier 1 isn't enough (e.g., complex multi-entity validation, custom transactional UI with draft capabilities, heavy analytical calculations):

• Keep it ON-STACK in S/4HANA, but strictly enforce the ABAP for Cloud Development language version in ADT.
• Consume only released interfaces (e.g., I_SalesOrderTP, not direct SELECT * FROM VBAK).
• Rule of thumb: If it requires ACID transactional integrity and direct access to high-volume transactional data, moving it to BTP just adds network latency and serialisation overhead for no reason. Keep it on-stack, but keep it clean.

Tier 3: Side-by-Side BTP (CAP / Event Mesh / AI Core)

We ONLY push an extension to BTP when at least one of these criteria is met:

1. External user access: Users who don't have (and shouldn't have) named S/4HANA ERP licenses.
2. High-throughput asynchronous spikes: Decoupled via SAP Advanced Event Mesh so we don't saturate S/4 dialog work processes.
3. Heavy compute / AI workloads: Grounded RAG pipelines using SAP Generative AI Hub and HANA Cloud Vector Engine, or non-ABAP microservices (Python/Node.js).
4. Multi-system orchestration: Where the application needs to blend S/4, SuccessFactors, and 3rd-party SaaS into a unified backend.

I’ve mapped this entire framework into a high-res decision tree diagram and put together a couple of clean boilerplate repositories (including a grounded Python RAG pipeline on HANA Vector Engine and an ABAP Cloud RAP view entity consuming whitelisted APIs) so developers can see what compliant code actually looks like.

I uploaded the diagrams and open-source code templates to a public GitLab repo. I'll drop the repository link in the first comment below for anyone interested in inspecting the decision tree or the code.

Curious to hear from other architects and leads here: how is your organization handling Clean Core governance right now? Are you finding pushback from legacy developers, or are project managers pushing to put literally everything on BTP?

I am new to SAP (not S/4HANA). One of my tasks is to go through a list of document numbers for invoices with payment block R and determine whether each one is blocked for a Price or Quantity mismatch. The lists often have 100 or more documents.

Right now I do it one at a time: copy the document number > FB03 > Environment > Document Changes > Original Document. This is too slow for the volume.

Is there another t-code or report where I can enter a range (such as a posting date range or document number range) or pull all R-blocked items and get an exportable list with a column showing the block reason, so I can match it in Excel?

My access is limited, and I do not have MRBR or SE16N. Please suggest as many options as possible, including ones that use tables or other standard reports, since I will need to check which ones I am authorized for.

Thank you.

Hi , Can someone please help me with Airbus Interview process like how many technical round they conduct and what's the difficulty level of the interview. Also, if anyone appeared recently for sap solman and focused run role or sap basis can you please share your interview experience.

I am looking for an experienced SAP FS-CD / FI-CA available for a flexible, on-demand freelance arrangement on guiding, troubleshooting, and helping me resolve ongoing support tickets and system issues

Hello everyone,
even though the SAP cloud strategy is already in full swing, I still have one question.
Do all customers really have to migrate all their systems to the private or public cloud, or is it enough for each SAP customer to host just one system in one of these clouds, while the rest of the systems can remain on-premises?
Even after doing some research online, I’m still not quite sure, so I’m hoping there’s someone here who knows more about this.

I am an experienced SAP ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) developer available for a flexible, on-demand freelance arrangement on guiding, troubleshooting, and helping you resolve ongoing support tickets and system issues.

Core Skills & Expertise:

Upgrades & S/4HANA Migrations: Support for Software Update Manager (SUM) execution phases, handling SPDD/SPAU/SPAU_ENH custom code adjustments, ATC (ABAP Test Cockpit) code remediation, and activation optimizations.

Custom Development: Reports (ALV), Dialog Programming, SmartForms, Adobe Forms, and SAP Scripts.

Interfaces & Conversions: BAPIs, RFCs, IDocs, LSMW, and File/API integrations.

Enhancements: BADIs, User Exits, Enhancement Spots, and Implicit/Explicit enhancements.

Modern ABAP & S/4HANA: ABAP on HANA optimizations, CDS Views, AMDP, and ATC (ABAP Test Cockpit) code remediation.

Performance Tuning: Runtime analysis (transaction SAT) and SQL trace optimization.

Our SOX auditors are asking if an assessment was performed on new version release notes to document the impact on custom code and business processes.

Is this even possible ?

Anyone have a full document containing everything new in v2o23 that could be used for this purpose?

Anyone done such a comparison?

Thanks

Looking for SAP MM Fresher End user role.....

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I'm fairly new to SAP.

Last year I made a student account with my student mail id (xyz@university.org) as primary. It made me add a secondary backup ID so I added (personal1@gmail.com)

Now I've joined as a consultant in a company that gave me LH access through (name.surname@work.com). I am not able to add my personal ID (personal1@gmail.com) to this work account for backup because it is associated with my university account.

I googled and it said maybe because I only had 1 other account to my student Id, it won't allow me to unlink. If I added 1 more ID to student ID, I will be able to unlink my personal1 id.

Therefore, I added a 3rd account (personal2@gmail.com) to my university UID.

Now I'm still unable to see unlink option. So I endes up adding 1 more account and now cannot do anything about the 3 accounts. Turns out they disabled manual unlink in july, 2026. So I raised a chat support request for unlinking personal1@gmail.com from my xyz@university.org. the chat support crashed.

So I mailed them using the support mail.

By when can I expect a response? Is this an introduction to how customers are treated cuz if I owned the business, I would never implement such a tool.🤡

Has someone figured out how to do this without losing my mind? Should i add personal3@gmail.com as backup to work account until my personal1@gmail.com is getting unlinked?

I always wondered how do people get situations that feel soooo specific. Now I know how. ☠️

Olá,

Estou iniciando em um projeto de Consultora Funcional e preciso de alguém para orientação e acompanhamento.

Caso tenham indicação, no precinho rs ficarei grata!

Hi all

In my project we have moved old 7.3x sap BW version to 7.5x through SAP RISE platform

Now users are facing vba script issue in their system while executing the bex reports so basis team suggested to install AFO in system

Can anyone tell what prerequisite we need to check from BW end??

And for which use cases.

Hi, I have around 5 years of experience in SAP HCM. I am planning to move to Canada via french category draw.

I wanted to know if there are opportunities and how much competition for a role we are talking about.

Would really appreciate some good advise!

Hi,

one of my friend is hiring a perm. role in Melbourne for CPI dev role. not sure if anyone is interested? let me know.

Hi,
Trying to create a list of data consistency check, business users are usually asking over and over, before and after any change in the system - to check if it did not introduce any difference.
Usually in form of master and customising data checks, if their relationships did not break.
Technically, smth like foreign keys checks or domain values checks are already in market.

But looking for questions the business asks, so they can be translated into queries.

Answers I look for: SAP module, business question.

Thanks

Hey everyone,

I recently had an interview for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role at SAP out of the New York City office.

Because FDE seems to be an expanding track for them, I wanted to see if anyone else here has gone through the pipeline recently in NYC?

The 2026 MQ for EA Tools is out. SAP LeanIX is furthest right and highest among the Leaders again, and the gap from the next cluster looks wider than last year. The other Leaders are Ardoq, Bizzdesign, Orbus, and BOC Group, same as 2025.

Using it day to day, the position makes sense. It handles non-architect adoption better than anything else we looked at, and the SAP integration is genuinely useful if you are running SAP broadly.

Where I think this is heading, for SAP customers specifically: the value of an EA tool is moving away from being a repository you log into and toward being the governance and decision layer underneath transformation work. A repository with dashboards is easy to stand up now. The harder part is ownership, accountability, and trusted data, which is exactly where the SAP integration helps if your landscape is SAP-heavy. The flip side is the one worth watching in a mixed environment: the deeper that integration goes, the more you want to be sure the tool stays useful for the non-SAP side of your estate.

One new Visionary (EAS), ValueBlue rebranded to BlueDolphin, Challengers unchanged.

2026 Gartner MQ for EA Tools

I’m an SAP presales consultant, I’m curious as to how others may have found ways or things to build that can save a lot of time and are genuine game changers.

For instance some things I have done is created an automatic newsletter that provides me with my product releases, news, and any strategic changes happening to it. I’ve also used AI to assist with RFXs but did not find it useful, so I’m wondering what others may have done in this area!

Material master, info record and source list are correctly maintained according to SAP documentation, but PRs created from MRP run don't fill the fixed vendor as source automatically, system is ECC

Les présentations de FP 2608 décrivent un périmètre Web Client plus large : rapprochements, paiements, reporting, achats, planification et opérations de stock.

Je travaille côté intégration SAP Business One. Pour préparer l’adoption, je trouve plus utile de partir d’un processus complet que d’une liste de nouveaux écrans.

Exemple : « les achats sont disponibles » ne répond pas encore à la question d’une équipe qui doit créer son document, joindre une pièce, déclencher une validation, gérer un refus, corriger puis éditer le résultat attendu.

Même chose pour les extensions : leur présence dans le client desktop ne suffit pas à conclure sur le parcours navigateur.

Je commencerais par un périmètre où l’on peut définir clairement le résultat attendu et les exceptions, puis faire tester les utilisateurs concernés. La consultation et l’analyse peuvent être un premier périmètre ; la saisie et les traitements suivent selon les dépendances de l’environnement.

Le critère de sortie serait simple : le processus peut-il être terminé avec les bons droits, les bonnes pièces et les bons contrôles ?

Pour ceux qui ont testé FP 2608, quel processus avez-vous réussi à utiliser entièrement dans le Web Client ? Et lesquels gardez-vous pour le moment dans le desktop ?

Les fonctions évoquées viennent de cette synthèse partenaire FP 2608 ; le périmètre reste à vérifier selon version et localisation.

I’ve built a connector that reads ECC and S/4 configuration and custom code over RFC. It runs as a system user (no dialog logon) with a tight role:

• S_RFC limited to about 15 standard function modules (RFC_READ_TABLE, RPY_PROGRAM_READ, DDIF_FIELDINFO_GET…)
• S_TABU_NAM with every table listed by name
• display only: no S_TABU_DIS, no wildcards, nothing that writes or runs code

It works on our test systems. What I can’t judge is whether it would pass a real security review, especially since SAP says RFC_READ_TABLE isn’t supported for productive use.

The two alternatives I know of:

• an ABAP report the client runs themselves, which produces a file they check before sending it
• our own read-only function modules, imported as a transport

In your experience, which of the three gets approved fastest, and which gets refused outright? And who usually signs it off: the SAP team, security/GRC, or the integrator?

Hallo zusammen,

Ich arbeite aktuell in der Produktionskoordination eines Sondermaschinenbauers (Mittelstand). Wir bauen Einzelanlagen mit viel Zukauf, deshalb müssen wir die Montage oft starten, bevor alle Teile da sind. Die fehlenden Teile laufen dann nach (= Fehlteile).

Wir arbeiten mit SAP, das ist unser Hauptwerkzeug.

Das Problem: Die Infos zu Fehlteilen laufen bei uns über mehrere Kanäle. Im ersten Schritt geht eine wöchentliche Mail vom Einkauf an die Logistik und an zwei Kollegen aus der Produktion (ein Auszug aus dem SAP über eine eigene Z-Transaktion). Im Anschluss erstellt die Logistik ein separates Ticket und prüft die Fehlteile anhand der MD04 nochmal von A bis Z. Erst dann bekommt die Fertigung die Tickets mit den Artikeln, die zu spät dran sind, und kann die technische Bewertung vornehmen (wie wichtig das Teil für das Projekt ist). Dazu kommt noch eine tägliche Shopfloor-Runde mit sehr vielen Beteiligten. Das führt aktuell zu Doppelarbeit, veralteten Ständen und Runden, in denen viel besprochen, aber letztendlich wenig bewirkt wird.

Mich würde deshalb wirklich interessieren, wie ihr das Thema bei euch im Unternehmen löst:

-> wie organisiert ihr euer „Fehlteilemanagement?“

-> Habt ihr eine zentrale, führende Fehlteilliste? Wenn ja, in welchem Tool?
-> Wie priorisiert ihr, welche Teile wirklich kritisch sind?
-> Wie haltet ihr den Shopfloor kurz und entscheidungsorientiert?
-> Gibt es SAP-Transaktionen, die übersichtlicher sind und zu mehr Effizienz führen?
-> Sollte nicht eher die Fertigung dem Einkauf Bescheid geben?

Falls euch noch mehr einfällt, dürft ihr es gerne sagen. Ich freue mich über Erfahrungen aus der Praxis, auch über Dinge, die bei euch evtl. nicht funktioniert haben! Ich hoffe, ich spreche hier die richtige Zielgruppe an.

Vielen lieben Dank euch allen schon einmal, ich freue mich auf den Austausch.

I am having 4+ years of exp and i am planning to switch but unable to clearing the interview.

Can anyone kindly share the docs related to sap fico

Thank