The author of »Production Planning with SAP S/4HANA«
Jawad Akhtar
Jawad Akhtar is an SAP logistics and supply chain management expert with a focus on business sales and delivery. He earned his chemical engineering degree from Missouri University of Science and Technology in the United States. He has more than 20 years of professional experience, 16 of which have been spent working with SAP systems. He has experience working on several large-scale, end-to-end SAP project implementation lifecycles, including rollouts. He works with SAP clients to help them identify root causes of business issues and address those with the appropriate SAP products and change management strategies. He now focuses on next-generation SAP products such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, SAP Ariba, and SAP C/4HANA. Jawad is also a technical advisor to SAPexperts, an ASUG speaker, and a contributor to SearchSAP, where his "Ask the Expert" column shares real-life lessons and best practices gleaned from SAP implementations, ways to avoid common project pitfalls, and features of various SAP products that solve key business issues.
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Jawad Akhtar
883 pages, hardcover
Get the most out of your Quality Management system in SAP! From QM configuration to business process management to working in the system, this is the resource you need. Get a 360-degree view of the component, learn about QM concepts
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Your one-stop reference for QM with SAP ERP
Optimize your QM business processes for planning, notifications, and inspections
Integrate QM with your supply chain in SAP ERP
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Jawad Akhtar
80 pages
Dreaming of a lean inventory management system? Discover how implementing Kanban in SAP ERP MM or PP can help you pull only the stock you need. From the basic concepts of Kanban through configuration, customization, and reports, this guide will
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Employ the Kanban principle for lean manufacturing
Configure and personalize the Kanban method in SAP ERP MM and PP
Replenish using Kanban cards for production, procurement, and stock transfer
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Martin Murray, Jawad Akhtar
739 pages, hardcover
Get the most out of your Materials Management implementation with this updated, comprehensive guide to configuration and functionality. Whether you work with SAP MM or with peripheral SAP applications, you'll learn the ins and outs of materials management in SAP
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Configure SAP MM to reflect your unique logistics requirements
Maintain critical materials data: materials, customer, and vendor records
Master functionalities like batch management, inventory management, purchasing, and quotation management
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Jawad Akhtar
93 pages
Balance supply and demand, optimize production processes, and avoid waste with sales and operations planning! Use standard planning (PP-SOP) to devise a simple production plan or use flexible planning (LO-LIS-PLN) to meet more complex requirements. Understand version management, forecasting, rough-cut
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Use standard functionality for your basic S&OP needs
Leverage the flexible planning functionality for complex requirements
Extend your planning through version management, forecasting, and more
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Jawad Akhtar
66 pages
Get the means to manage complaints and trace quality problems in SAP ERP with this E-Bite! Begin by configuring notification types and defining nonconformity costs. Handle external customer complaints in sales and distribution and internal quality issues in production or
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See the complaint workflow from its defined start to a successful end
Process quality notifications throughout your supply chain
Configure quality notifications in SAP ERP Quality Management
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Jawad Akhtar
940 pages, hardcover
Run your SAP PP system like a finely tuned machine! Learn how to configure SAP ERP Production Planning for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing and master BOM status definitions, process message characteristics, and master data. Dive into SAP PP workflows
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Master SAP ERP Production Planning for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing
Streamline your SAP PP processes using tools like S&OP
Configure master data, manufacturing profiles, work centers, and more
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Ferenc Gulyássy, Jawad Akhtar
108 pages
Thinking about replenishment with SAP S/4HANA or even SAP ERP? In this E-Bite, you’ll discover how demand-driven replenishment (DDR) changes the game! All the classic MRP elements are present—classifications, stock positioning, lead time, and buffers—see how SAP S/4HANA recalculates these
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Discover demand-driven replenishment with SAP S/4HANA
Explore SAP Fiori apps for stock positioning, lead time, and more
See how DDR minimizes demand-supply variability
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Jawad Akhtar, Martin Murray
946 pages, hardcover
Looking for MM in SAP S/4HANA? Whether your focus is on materials planning, procurement, or inventory, this guide will teach you to configure your critical processes in SAP S/4HANA. Start by creating your organizational structure and defining business partners and
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Configure SAP S/4HANA for your materials management requirements
Maintain critical material and business partner records
Walk through MRP, inventory management, purchasing, and quotation management
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Jawad Akhtar
130 pages
If you're new to SAP S/4HANA or converting from SAP ERP, learn what's changed from the days of "customers" to "vendors". Then set up business partners in your system: configure vendor account groups and the business partner role itself, and
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Transition from vendors and customers to business partners
Configure and maintain business partners in SAP S/4HANA
Perform customer-vendor integration (CVI)
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Jawad Akhtar
950 pages, hardcover
Keep your product standards high with this comprehensive guide to quality management in SAP S/4HANA! You’ll learn how to make QM an integral part of your existing supply chain by connecting to materials management, production planning, warehouse management, and other
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Implement QM with SAP S/4HANA for planning, inspections, and notifications
Integrate QM processes across your supply chain
Master batch management, stability studies, quality issue management, FMEA, and more
