ABAP

So when I thought of writing a book on SAP, I kept thinking on what should be its theme, what should be topics, what could be its target audience, and more than that, how it should be different from the crowd, how it could stand out.

It, it, it should not be me too, uh, book, right? And then I realized that there are thousands of SAP books written with names like Master SAP FICO, SAP MM, SAP ABAP Made Easy or Business Objects, so on and so forth.

And, but those books were targeting a specific module, specific technology or specific processes, right? Giving full details of re- uh, configuration, coding, screenshots, transaction, navigation, and blah, blah, blah.

Correct.

So i-if I go by my experience of last 30 years, uh, a-and some people may not like it, but overall, an average SAP consultant, may be functional or technical, takes a very narrow view and is content with his or her own little expertise in a particular module.

Correct.

Maybe say MM, SAP MM, or SAP ABAP, or SAP WA.

They don't try to look beyond their comfort zone, either due to fear of learning new things, or are just content with what they are doing.

The data are decades old and lots of business logic is buried into the systems.

So how do you calculate sales forecasts? How do you do special processes in the company? How do you make sure that controlling works nicely? These are information that are built into ABAP code, into mappings, into calc views.

So if you now want to bring these information Available for an agent, you have to make sure that you can translate this old ABAP code and this old, very complex logic into something that is understandable, relatable.

On the one hand side, for people that have not been twenty, thirty years in the company, started early maybe, the new controllers.

And on the other hand side, for agents.

And then it was quite easy to have an overarching logic to make an, a company-wide optimization on the data.

What were the ... was the challenges? The challenges were, um, to migrate old logic, uh, you have to really understand deeply how the logic was built in the old systems.

So ABAP code, yes, you can throw it into an LLM and it might translate something, but the logic is usually built among different classes, reusable objects.

So ours was, we know SAP, But let's forget the old SAP, right? This is new, right? Let's forget about the old transaction codes that we used to work.

Let's forget about how we used to solve things with IDOCs and ABAP code and this, that, and the other.

This is a new version, right? This is new.

And all credit to the team, you know, they threw themselves at it and they got... their hands on the system very early.

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This process took It was about 3, 4 months in the total remediation process.

He did an automatic part and a part with an ABAP team to do the manual remediation.

What was mandatory, let's put it this way, is that we went through some periods of winning some applications.

So we had to, for example, replace the GRC NFE with the DRC.

I think some are more likely than others.

I imagine there's probably not a mobile food vendor called Spine and Abap incorporated, but maybe there's been some partridge names over the years that people have tried to incorporate, as we have with the title of this very podcast.

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bless you joe uh i do enjoy the fact that you've you've done this sort of very uh this very subtle nod to um the apu um yeah it's based around one a very niche reference and two um in a very sort of such a reduced form that i think it would take i i would challenge anyone to spot this as an unapartage reference i'll be honest i love the effort but i'm not surprised that no one spotted it mate